phpBB Forum - how to force user login

[fbrdphreak]

Hey all,
The title pretty much says it. I'm playing with phpBB and want to force all users to login to view any page of the forum. Suggestions? Thanks

 

[jdport]

In the permissions , just set everything to "registered" including "view" and "read". People won't even be able to see topics in the forums then unless they have registered and logged in.

-Jeff

 

[fbrdphreak]

I thought about that and we can do it if necessary; but I have seen other forums (I think they were phpBB) require a login to even view a thread. This is for a company discussion, so having each and every page locked is important.

 

[fbrdphreak]

bump

 

[tfinch2]

rtfm

http://www.phpbb.com/kb/search.php

search for permissions

 

[fbrdphreak]

I understand how to set permissions. This would allow me to set it so that users w/out rights or visitors cannot see the categories, topics, or threads. That is a way to do it - but I want to be able to force ANYONE who visits ANY page to login or they are denied access altogether.

 

[CTho9305]

Have you actually tried it? I didn't read the docs, but from the other posts, it looks like what they're suggesting would do what you want. In every sane system I"ve seen, not-logged-in users are part of the "users w/o rights" group. A design that lets you see more logged out than logged in is just stupid.

 

[fbrdphreak]

I have tried it and you can see the main forum page, but no individual forums are listed. It would work, don't get me wrong, but what my bosses want is to require a login to view ANYTHING. I know its possible, I've seen it on a couple random forums. Just wondering if anyone here knew how to do it Thx

 

[Soccer55]

Is this what you're looking for?

-Tom

 

[fbrdphreak]

Looks like it!! Thanks a lot, I'll try this out on Monday.

 

[jdport]

it sounds like what you're looking for isn't a requirement to log into PHPBB, but rather a log into your website in general? If so , that isn't a PHPBB issue it's a web design issue.

There are content managers and such available that should work with phpBB that I think you can do this with, but I don't really know anything about them so I can't help there... my previous post though actually does what your original question asked

-Jeff

 

[fbrdphreak]

There is no "website in general" in this scenario. We have a forum only that will be used for a small group of people to communicate, thus the need to make it as private as possible.