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 Topic: No Guest access wanted at all!
Posted: 06 July 2006 at 5:27pm |
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!
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Scotty32
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Posted: 06 July 2006 at 11:39pm |
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simplest way to do it is, in the common.asp file add a line like:
if lngLoggedInUserID = 2 and blnShowThisPage then
close db
response.redirect("login_user.asp")
end if
then in the login_user.asp, login_user_test.asp and register page (and register_confirm.asp), and any other pages you find that guest NEED to view (eg sign up and login as i mentioned) add the line anywhere above the include for the common.asp file.:
blnShowThisPage = True
you'll also need to add Dim blnShowThisPage to the common.asp file
now you've blocked off your forum to members only.
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Posted: 07 July 2006 at 9:08am |
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Hi Scotty,
Thanks for the reply. Is there anywhere in particular that the lines need to be placed in the common.asp?
Thanks.
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Posted: 07 July 2006 at 9:45am |
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i'll fix you up with a common.asp file later - but theres to many files to just add the "blnShowThisPage" to
if you want to do it your self, just enter it near the bottom,
not sure if theres a "banned user" part or if i just entered that my self.
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Posted: 07 July 2006 at 10:17am |
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Thanks!
BTW - I have registrations turned off, so is it just the login_user.asp file that needs the blnShowThisPage line?
John
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Posted: 07 July 2006 at 1:35pm |
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yeah, in that case its just login_user.asp and login_user_test.asp
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Posted: 07 July 2006 at 2:31pm |
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Hi Scotty,
I have stuck:
If lngLoggedInUserID = 2 And blnShowThisPage Then
close db
response.redirect("login_user.asp")
End If
in the common.asp file, within the Read in Logged-in User Data section, and:
Dim blnShowThisPage a little before this, but it doesn't appear to make any difference to the way anything works...
Not sure if I am doing something wrong....
Any unregistered users can still browse around the default page, and access things like the Active User list etc.
Also, in the login_user.asp file, if I put:
blnShowThisPage = True
before the:
<!--#include file="common.asp" -->
line, the forum just displays it within the web page... does it need to be encapsulated within <% quotes?
Sorry if these are silly comments, but I'm new to this asp stuff!!!
Thanks very much for your help so far.
John
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Posted: 07 July 2006 at 2:32pm |
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Hi Scotty,
I have stuck:
If lngLoggedInUserID = 2 And blnShowThisPage Then
close db
response.redirect("login_user.asp")
End If
in the common.asp file, within the Read in Logged-in User Data section, and:
Dim blnShowThisPage a little before this, but it doesn't appear to make any difference to the way anything works...
Not sure if I am doing something wrong....
Any unregistered users can still browse around the default page, and access things like the Active User list etc.
Also, in the login_user.asp file, if I put:
blnShowThisPage = True
before the:
<!--#include file="common.asp" -->
line, the forum just displays it within the web page... does it need to be encapsulated within <% quotes?
Sorry if these are silly comments, but I'm new to this asp stuff!!!
Thanks very much for your help so far.
John
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