Quotehow to lead the anonymous user calling the root adress to the login page, anyway
I found this in my nginx config:rewrite ^/$ /login.php last;
Your preferred web server will most likely support something similar. You can change the target to whatever you prefer to be your landing page; even a static html page might be desireable.
N.b. you can design the log in page as you wish under Admin -> Authentication and Registration -> Authentication -> Loginscreen Editor
and under Repository -> Repository - Home -> Customize
page you can add some beautiy to your "public area" page. In order for this to work, you need to enable Enable Content Editing in Repository
in Admin -> Editing -> ILIAS Page Editor -> Repository Pages
Regards, Felix