Dis-"Allow non-members to browse the forum" problem

skuban

#1) Love Vanilla #2) I did search around to find this answer before posting Ok when I uncheck "Allow non-members to browse the forum" so that you have to register to browse the forums... it hides it from everyone. When I try and go to the forum it timesout in firefox. I assume, that I should get the register/sign in box when this is unchecked and I'm not signed in with a cookie. Instead i just get nothing. Manually checking this in settings.php and uploading it makes the forum reappear. What am I doing wrong? Thanks Scott

Minisweeper

Wierd. Got any of your other users/friends to check? php/mysql/apache versions?

skuban

don't you hate it when you find something right after you post... OK, if I go to /forum/people.php I get the login screen (yeah!) BUT /forum/ and /forum/index.php don't redirect you to people.php - is this possible to setup? mysql 5 PHP Version 4.3.10-16 Apache/1.3.33

Minisweeper

I believe index.php should redirect you if you're not logged in and it's not publically viewable..hmm... I take it you're not running friendly urls?

skuban

no friendly urls.... i had heard some ext. didn't play nice with them. Would that fix it? (the redirecting?)

Minisweeper

I doubt it but it might be worth a go. I cant actually see (at a glance and i've gotta go in a sec) where vanilla decides whether to show the user the discussions list or redirect elsewhere so i cant even begin to work out what it's doing in the meantime but hopefully someone else will be along or i'll try and remember to look later.

Dinoboff

It is in People.Class.Session.php I think:
function Check(&$Context) { if (($this->UserID == 0 && !$Context->Configuration['PUBLIC_BROWSING']) || ($this->UserID > 0 && !$this->User->PERMISSION_SIGN_IN)) { if ($this->UserID > 0 && !$this->User->PERMISSION_SIGN_IN) $this->End($Context->Authenticator); header('location: '.AppendUrlParameters($Context->Configuration['SAFE_REDIRECT'], 'ReturnUrl='.GetRequestUri())); die(); } }