Turn off guest access?
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Topic: Turn off guest access?
Posted By: Storm
Subject: Turn off guest access?
Date Posted: 06 July 2006 at 5:35pm
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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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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 07 July 2006 at 9:34am
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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. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: Storm
Date Posted: 07 July 2006 at 10:22am
| Can you tell me which files/code needs to be changed? |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 07 July 2006 at 2:19pm
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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. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: greytricky
Date Posted: 08 July 2006 at 11:24am
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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
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 08 July 2006 at 1:23pm
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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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