Home page of a jatos server
in JATOS
When you access a jatos server, for example https://jatos.example.org, you are redirected to the login page https://jatos.example.org/jatos/login.
Is it possible to configure jatos on the server so the home page is a customised one and only access the login page when specifically requested?
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Unfortunately this is not possible. I'm curious: What would you like the home page to be?
Essentially a simple static html page that presents the server with possibly a link to the identification page for experience managers and a link to another page on which there will be a list of current studies with the contact details to participate.
I thought about something along this line. We might implement this in the future.
+1 for this!
Since version 3.5.9 you can customize the home page: https://www.jatos.org/Customize-JATOS-Home-Page.html
Unfortunately the login page itself is still not possible to customize. But you can have some kind of static front page (like they do with mindprobe.eu) that has some description and a link to JATOS' login page.
Thanks, I saw that! However, this customises the page seen by study authors when they log in.
I'd like to customise (or redirect) the page seem by participants (or anybody who's not logged in) who browses to the top-level URL - e.g. https://jatos.example.org/
Currently that redirects to the login page. I would rather show a generic page that says something like "Welcome to Acme Research Institute. Please use the URL you were given to participate."
Anybody who wants to run studies will separately be given the URL they need for logging in and managing their studies.
Essentially I'm trying to keep the login URL secret (well, less obvious at least) so as not to tempt would-be hackers.
(I have a security question relating to this, but it maybe merits its own post, so I'll do that now...)
You could setup a static welcome page and then configure the URL base path to 'hide' JATOS in a path. E.g. you could have a static welcome page under https://jatos.example.org/ and then JATOS under https://jatos.example.org/whatever/. Would this help you already?
That might work, I'll give it a try!
Just an extremely minor followup: is there a way I might be able to customise the 'favicon' that appears in the browser tab?
There is no configuration in JATOS to change the favicon but if you are using Apache or nginx (or similar) in front, you can set them up to deliver the favicon from some other source.
Ok!