Accessing the public Experience Site directs to the login page instead of the home page.
For example, the site's url is https://sample.com/customer. Once it accessed the expected behavior is to be directed to the site's home page https://sample.com/customer/s/, however, users will be directed to the site's login page instead https://sample.com/customer/s/login.
To resolve this, they need to assign the main page in the Experience Site Home within Administration and ensure the Home page is set to PUBLIC in Experience Builder.
To assign 'main' in the Experience Site Home do the following:
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