By iambill on

I am looking into installing Drupal.

However, I need the ability to require admin approval on registration.
I need the ability to only allow registered users to view the forum.

Will drupal do this? Will is do this on a base install or do I need a module? Which module?

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sepeck commented

does this just fine with no additional modules.

-sp
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-Steven Peck
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iambill’s picture

iambill commented

I'm sold. Had previously tried to setup using phpNuke and was unhappy with it.

sepeck’s picture

sepeck commented

the best practices link in my sig for some ideas. Forum support requires forum module and comments module be active.

-sp
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Drupal Best Practices Guide - My stuff Black Mountain

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide

iambill’s picture

iambill commented

I've got drupal installed, forum created.

I would like to set it up so that an anonymous user can see main page, read stories there, but not access the forums. Is that possible?

iambill’s picture

iambill commented

I've got drupal installed, forum created.

I would like to set it up so that an anonymous user can see main page, read stories there, but not access the forums. Is that possible?

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ferntree commented

Bill:

I was trying to figure this same thing out... And it just seems like you get either "on" or "off" for anonymous viewing of everything. Under access control, the node module has a method "access content" which you can uncheck for anonymous. This then blocks an anon user from the entire site, which is frustrating. It seems that "content" includes stories, pages, forums, blogs, whatever. I wish that Drupal had an "access content" operation by module, so that you could let anonymous users look at pages, but not at forums, for example.

I also tried categories, thinking that you could restrict certain categories, but it doesn't look like it either.

How frustrating...

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The Doctor commented

This seems really wierd. I need to set up a site where anonymous users (including search-engine spiders) would be able to see a limited number of pages, but the majority of the site is readable only by members.

Wouldn't I be able to use Drupal for this? It seems such a basic requirement.

Added: I've poked around this site a bit more since posting this, and it may be that the Taxonomy Access Control module may solve the problem. Could anyone confirm or deny this?

(Unfortunately, there doesn't seeem to be much in the way of documentation about this module, so I may have msunderstood what it does.)

Or maybe the Simple Access module is the one that's wanted....

I'd really like to know.