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Pedro Machado Jun 30 '14

Hi, all.

My site with Oxwall is blocked for guests. In Global Privacy I marked that Guests cannot view the site.

But I want allow access to Blog only for guests and users.

Is there any way to allow access to Blog, without allow access to the rest of the site?

I tried to allow access to the site for guests and make hide the pages for guests, but any pages (like users) still accessible by the address bar.

Team

Alia Jul 1 '14

Pedro, it is possible.
You will need to add an exception into ow_core/application.php, similar to the way this is done for "Terms of use" page:

if ( UTIL_String::removeFirstAndLastSlashes($value->getUri()) == 'terms-of-use' )
            {
                OW::getRequestHandler()->addCatchAllRequestsExclude('base.members_only', $staticPageDispatchAttrs['controller'], $staticPageDispatchAttrs['action'], array('documentKey' => $value->getKey()));
            }

But in your case, you will need to adjust addCatchAllRequestsExclude to work with attributes of "Blogs" plugin.

Pedro Machado Jul 1 '14

Thanks for reply

But.. Ooo.. It's very difficult for me. I looked the code and I don't understand what should be changed. Because this code only work for static pages. And for Blog is more complex I thought.

Pedro Machado Jul 3 '14

Hi, Aliia.

I added an extra condition in line 279, where is checked if the site is visible to visitors and if the user is logged. It is a ugly hack but it works.

if ((int) $baseConfigs['guests_can_view'] === BOL_UserService::PERMISSIONS_GUESTS_CANT_VIEW && !OW::getUser()->isAuthenticated() && ( UTIL_String::truncate(OW::getRequest()->getRequestUri(),5,'')) != 'blogs')

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Alia Jul 9 '14

Thanks for sharing Pedro.

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