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A quick grep for the wgWhitelistRead variable shows that it doesnt exist
in any other files but Local and Default settings, and thus is never
checked anywhere. The language files contain a "you need to be logged in
to read" text, but the functionality seems totally missing.

Any ideas?

/Thomas

tir, 2004-03-16 kl. 15:52 skrev Thomas Hentschel Lund:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to configure a mediawiki to run closed for non-approved
> accounts. The version I'm running is phase 3 1.2.0rc3 on redhat 8
>
> I have changed the following in the LocalSettings.php file:
>
> # Invitation-only closed shop type of system
> $wgWhitelistEdit = true;
> $wgWhitelistRead = true;
> $wgWhitelistAccount = array ( "user" => 0, "sysop" => 1, "developer" =>
> 1 );
>
> But only edits are disallowed for users not logged in. Its possible for
> anonymous users to read all pages.
>
> Is this a bug, or am I missing some important information?
>
> Thank you for your help
>
> /Thomas
>
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writes:
>A quick grep for the wgWhitelistRead variable shows that it doesnt exist
>in any other files but Local and Default settings, and thus is never
>checked anywhere. The language files contain a "you need to be logged in
>to read" text, but the functionality seems totally missing.
>
>Any ideas?

I have implemented use of '$wgWhitelistRead' in the wiki code but it may
not have been included in a release candidate yet. It should be available
in the head CVS revision (use at your own risk), on SourceForge.

In my implementation, you set '$wgWhitelistRead' to an array of values of
the form "namespace:articleName", each of which is an article a user may
see without actually logging in. For example

$wgWhitelistRead = array ( ":Main_Page", "Special:Userlogin",
"Wikipedia:Help");

If the user goes to any other article, they are given a message that they
must login first to see the page they've gone to.

Note that "Special:Userlogin" has to be included in the list, otherwise a
user could never log in. As a debugging aid, I put an invisible HTML
comment in the error page with the identifier of the article the user was
trying to reach.

Nick Pisarro