If the user has access to that page, he should be directed back to it after logging in. At least that's how it works on my concrete5 installations.

While this should be unnecessary, you can also manually specify which page you want a user to be redirected to after login by setting the rcID query string variable. It can be a pages cID or a full urlencode address. In the controller of the page they're trying to access, you could check the user's permissions, and if they don't have access, send them to the login: /login/?rcID=79

I have tried this on two installations with the same result. If I enter the url of a page that has restricted permissions and then enter the username and password of a user that has permission to view the page that user is taken to the index page not the requested page. The user (while being logged in) can now enter the url and will be taken to the correct page.

just curious, what version of concrete are you running?

Is anyone else out there having this issue?

I am running 5.3.1.1

My first post to the forum... As a new user of Concrete5 I find it both facinating & frustrating! Facinating as to the flexibility of page development & control, but frustrating in its non-ability to do "intuitive" things. I'm working in ver 5.3.1.1 and have created my first "registered user" page at the 3rd sitemap level. On test, the login page came up OK, but after I logged in the index.php page came up instead of the ..index.php/mem-first/mem_area page. So exactly how do I specify that I want the mem-area page to display after thelogin is successful? (See, I don't know what a "rcID query string variable" is.)

This will be fixed in 5.3.2 (hopefully coming this week.)

Thanks very much. I will keep an eye open for the update.