Question

I want the guest user to be able to view the site, but require people to register in order to create new webs, etc.. Is there an easy way to do this? Thanks in Advance.

Environment

-- ChrisMalatesta - 10 Mar 2004

Answer

yep.

this is pretty much the normal setup. you need to rename the .htaccess.txt file (in the bin dir) to .htaccess, and then edit it to set the file paths to be correct for your system. ( i think that will do it) - but if i'm wrong - make sure that the htaccess file lists the edit script as "require validuser".

-- SvenDowideit - 10 Mar 2004

OK, I did as you suggested, but I want TWikiGuest to be able to read/view everything jsut not edit, it seems by making these changes, unless you are a valid user, you can not view anything, any ideas?

Thanks Sven

odd can you check that your .htaccess file does not contain a valid user line for the view script? - it should be easiest to remove the section for the view script altogether

actually - post your htacces file - that might be quicker

-- SvenDowideit - 12 Mar 2004

I figured it out, I had a .htaccess file for the entire site and then a seperate one for the TWiki stuff, it was picking up the username and password for site, I removed that and it works fine.

Thanks,

Chris