By Big Dog on

Could I, for instance have the stories, blogs,and forums be public but have the books be private? I was hoping I could create roles and then use permissions to block access to certain types of content, but when I looked, I saw you could block access to "access content", but there is no control over individual types of content. Any ideas?

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Big Dog commented

Or would the only solution be to have a public drupal site which shared logins with a private drupal site? How hard would that be to set up?

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timtak commented

The thing is that the instructions for creating a mutliple drupal site

http://drupal.org/node/view/275

requires the use of symbolic links = non existant directories. Since the directories are non existant, I am not sure how easy it would be to passwords on them since there is nowhere to save the ".htaccess."

I think that this can be achieved by addinng access control to the httpd.confg of apache but I only know how to do it using CPanel/Webmin or using .htaccess.
http://www.sheamus.force9.co.uk/user/password.html

How does one password procect a symbolic link?

But perhaps you mean to reinstall Drupal and let the two installations talk to each other and share information. That sounds possible, if time consuming.

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Big Dog commented

Well, I may have led us down one path to one possible "solution" too quickly. My first and primary question is, "Can I make part of a Drupal site private and the other part public? For example, can the forums be public but the books be private?

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Big Dog commented

I searched on the word "private" and found a wealth of discussion on groups and other concepts that could be used for access control. I found that Drupal does not support anthing like this right now, but people are thinking about it, and some are even coding.

Thanks Big Dog.

Your welcome