Typo3: show login page for protected pages when user not is logged in
The problem: If you have pages which are only accessible for certain FE user groups, some of your users may bookmark these protected pages and return when they are not logged in (or you may send the URLs in a newsletter, etc.). Typo3 handles this case as a “404 Page not found” situation (I don’t know why they think 401/403 and 404 are the same, but I can’t change it).
So if you want to show a login form in this case, but a 404 error page if the page is “really” not there, you have to write a user-defined page-not-found-handling … Continue Reading