Question

We'd like our vendor base to have access to our Twiki base through our VPN that allows them to access only specific internal IP addresses on our LAN. We'd like to create a few Webs that only employees on the corporate LAN have access to. One possible way of doing this is to assign that Web a unique IP address but I am not sure if this is possible. We don't want to restrict by TWiki username/registration because we have 40k employees.

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-- AsheeshBirla - 22 May 2006

Answer

There's no problem in having two seperate twiki installations and let one of them have only a few directories "linked in" at the file level.

But if you need to handle this in one and the same installation you probably need to look the apache rewriting module (+ think up some clever scheme).

-- SteffenPoulsen - 29 May 2006

As Steffen suggested, it is probably the easiest to create a second TWiki installation in the DMZ, and to nfs-link the webs you want to share with your vendor base. In the DMZ installation, create symbolic links for all the twiki/data/SharedWeb and twiki/pub/SharedWeb.

-- PeterThoeny - 29 May 2006