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Storm Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 06 July 2006 Status: Offline Points: 8	Post Options Post Reply Quote Storm Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Turn off guest access? Posted: 06 July 2006 at 5:35pm
	Hi There, We have just purchased the WebWiz forum software, and am trying to set it up in a very restrictive way. Basically, the way we want it is unless you are issued with a username and password by us, you have no access AT ALL to the forum. I guess that means removing/turning off the guest account, but I seem to be unable to do this. It appears that the most restrictive settings still allow guests to search the forums, see topic headings, last registered users etc. We need to present a login box as the first page, no matter who you are, and if you don't have a username and password, then you can get no further. We don't want google or yahoo to be able to crawl the site either. Help!

WebWiz-Bruce Members Profile Find Members Posts Admin Group Web Wiz Developer Joined: 03 September 2001 Location: Bournemouth Status: Offline Points: 9844	Post Options Post Reply Quote WebWiz-Bruce Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07 July 2006 at 9:34am
	You can use the forum permission system to disallow Read Access to the Guest Account in all forums, this will prevent unregistered users browsering posts etc. in forums. You can also place passwords on forums, but, the permissions system is more secure. If you want un-registered users to only see a login box when they brows to the forum you will need to look into modifying the software, as this type of thing is presently available.
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Storm Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 06 July 2006 Status: Offline Points: 8	Post Options Post Reply Quote Storm Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07 July 2006 at 10:22am
	Can you tell me which files/code needs to be changed?

WebWiz-Bruce Members Profile Find Members Posts Admin Group Web Wiz Developer Joined: 03 September 2001 Location: Bournemouth Status: Offline Points: 9844	Post Options Post Reply Quote WebWiz-Bruce Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07 July 2006 at 2:19pm
	If you are referring to replacing the login system with your own, then it would be more difficult than just modifying a few lines of code. If you are unfamiliar with ASP, then you would be best of getting an ASP developer to write the new login system for you.
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greytricky Members Profile Find Members Posts Groupie Joined: 01 December 2003 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 48	Post Options Post Reply Quote greytricky Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 08 July 2006 at 11:24am
	Hi Borg, isn't there a tick box in the admin section to stop unregistered members from viewing the forum, im sure ive used this before but I can't find it now I have a lot of 'guests' which id like to register (or take pressure off the forum) cheers, keep up the good work

WebWiz-Bruce Members Profile Find Members Posts Admin Group Web Wiz Developer Joined: 03 September 2001 Location: Bournemouth Status: Offline Points: 9844	Post Options Post Reply Quote WebWiz-Bruce Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 08 July 2006 at 1:23pm
	There isn't anything to do that, but there you can use the permission system to disallow Read Access for the Guest account so that Un-registered users can not access forums.
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