[SOLVED] Making a section of site private using PHP <SMF Forum>

[webmaster1]

Hi All,

 

I've just installed SMF Forum on a site of mine. It's working fine.

 

Does anyone know how I should go about making the forum section of the site private? I don't want it to be publically accessable i.e. blocked access from all forum pages.

 

Is this something I can configure from withing SMF or can do I need to apply some of my own PHP scripting?

[webmaster1]

I've come across various scripts to password protect a page using sessions.

 

Can this be done to the folder that contains the forum on my directory?

 

The folder in question has 777 permissions.

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You can make certain forums invisible to the public with smf. You can also give certain members special privellages. Are you planning on making a private torrent site? ???

[webmaster1]

Nope. Just a reserved area for a few freinds discussing a mutual topic.

 

So from what you're saying I should be configuring the privacy from within SMF?

[Mchl]

You can do this using SMF administrative tools.

http://docs.simplemachines.org/index.php?topic=114

[[-_-]]

Nope. Just a reserved area for a few freinds discussing a mutual topic.

 

So from what you're saying I should be configuring the privacy from within SMF?

Yup. Check out Mchl's link.

[webmaster1]

Thanks!