Manual talk:Preventing access

How come, when I add the "$wgWhitelistRead =" as instructed, an anonymous use can still view the contents of pages beyond main/login/help? I copied/pasted the line from this page to avoid the possibility of a typo. - Gregg S.

wgWhitelistRead seems to have no effect in 1.4beta1. From what I can tell, this is due to the default settings of the groupRights hash located in includes/User.php, in the isAllowed function, line 625. Changing line from 'read'         => '*', to 'read'         => 'user', seems to fix the problem. Joel Franusic 209.129.63.92 22:29, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I'm looking at the FAQ and see the following entry

Question: I want to be tyrannical (just registered users can edit) on the page itself, but still allow general access to Discuss this page/Post a comment. Can this be done? Answer: No. This feature was requested for http://wikimediafoundation.org, but has not yet been implemented.

However, it appears that this feature has infact been implemented for wikimediafoundation. Is this feature in the 1.3.9 code base? If so, how does one activate this feature?

Thanks! Damien Heiser

It appears that this feature has not (yet, I hope) been implemented on the Foundation wiki. Brianjd 10:38, 2005 Jan 24 (UTC)

Has anyone got the $wgWhitelistAccount, $wgWhitelistEdit and $wgWhitelistRead settings working as instructed? I've edited the LocalSettings.php file to no effect. I'm using version 1.3.11

-- Andy 23 Feb 05

Couple dumb questoins
1. Can I set Main to be sysop-only, leaving Talk (and User space) to be open?

Basically I would want Main to act like MediaWiki: space does now, where the entire namespace is protected by default.

2. Can I set uploads such that it is sysop-only, or will I need a custom Special:Upload?

KeithTyler 19:48, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)