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As for the initial page prior to login, if you are referring to Basic Auth, yes its blank until you authenticate. One proposal was https://github.com/OSC/ondemand/issues/207. The idea is you take these steps:

  1. Add a static start page to /var/www/ood/public/start.html which is your unauthenticated home page. There is a link on it called “Login” that links to /pun/sys/dashboard i.e. <a href="/pun/sys/dashboard">Login</a>
  2. Set root_uri: '/public/start.html' in /etc/ood/config/ood_portal.yml
  3. Run sudo /opt/ood/ood-portal-generator/sbin/update_ood_portal to update Apache config
  4. Run sudo systemctl restart httpd24-httpd to restart Apache

Then if you go to the root of the OnDemand instance / you are presented with the login page. You click login, and (at least in Firefox) and the Basic Auth dialog appears over the static login page:

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Of course this doesn’t work as well normal login pages. If you press cancel, you end up at /pun/sys/dashboard with an error:

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And any other URL that requires authentication, like going directly to /pun/sys/dashboard, will show a blank screen till you login. I’m unaware of another approach to have the desired effect using Apache, without using another authentication module.