Giving access to pages depending on profile

Question

Hi,
I want to give access to a page only if the visitor is logged on, not for the
guest. Any ideas

Answer 1

This problem has come up several times in this newsgroup. I wish BEA would
have made it a simple configuration issue like they did with individual
portlets.
If you don't mind altering the framework a bit it isn't too hard:
If you are using horizontal tabs you can modify \framework\hnav_bar.jsp and
put a check at the top of the while statement with the comment "// While we
have pages...". This would be something like
while (iterator.hasNext())
PageState pageState = (PageState)iterator.next();
String portalPageName =
pageState.getPageIdentifier().getName();
String selectedPage =
PortalRenderHelper.getPageIdentifier(request).getName();
String displayName = pageState.getDisplayName();
if (request.getRemoteUser() == null) {
// check portalPageName here and break if it should
be for logged in users
Maybe the checked pages should be put in a resource bundle so you can
configure it without touching the jsp in the future. Could even flag off of
a specific string in the portal page name since you can config the page to
have a different display name too.
If you want a user to log in before seeing any portal pages you can put the
check
<%
if (request.getRemoteUser() == null) {
%>
<jsp:forward page="/framework/security/login.jsp"/>
<%
%>
at the top of the /framework/portal.jsp
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Hi,
I want to give access to a page only if the visitor is logged on, not forthe
guest. Any ideas