What radmoose said, that's why I wrote the mod. If you're ok with everyone seeing annoying "you don't have permission" messages, no content and potentially an unskinned CMS (like in my case, it's getting done last), go right ahead and use the out of the box stuff.

If you don't want them to even know about the CMS or if they have a link to it, to then auto redirect to your forums, well... this mod does the trick for that.

Trek =)

I installed this Mod and it does work as mentioned for the most part (see question below.)

Two suggestions:

1. Set the Product URL to this thread.

2. Setup the Version Check URL as well.

One question:

Is it possible to have it just redirect to the forum automatically without posting the "Access to this page is restricted, redirecting you to our forums." message when someone clicks on the "HOME" tab? (I think this is a limitation of vB, but I wasn't sure.)

Because of these I rated it 4 stars, but I would probably re-rate it 5 once the two suggestions are implemented.

Nice work! Thank you for sharing it. I have a ton of things to do on the cms side and this eliminates one of the massive headaches that I was planning. Will mark installed once I get the Gold.

I can do steps 1 and 2 for sure (never did the version check, but I remember seeing an article on it a while back, I'll reread that soon).

The redirect I'm not sure about, I tried to fool around with redirecting and such without the internal VB functions, but you run into things like headers already being sent and such.

Ideally, people won't even be hitting that URL because they won't have it cached in their browser history and such (assuming you start Vb4 with this installed and CMS off). I'll check into it again, but no promises on this one. =)

thanxx man

I"ll try it

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No problem at all, post it! Thanks!

I don't need the CMS for my forum (not yet), so I simply did this:

1. Edited index.php in the forum root, commenting require('content.php'); and uncommenting require('forum.php');

2. Went to ACP->Plugins & Products->Manage Products and disabled the vBulletin CMS product.

Now the CMS disappeared, the button on the navbar too. ;)

Hope it helps someone else with my same need. I'll tag this mod and see how it evolves.

That works, but that also prevents you from working on the CMS in the meantime. What my mod does is allows you to keep it running for those you want to access it and those you don't... don't know it exists, even if they happened to know the URL it'll redirect them to your forums.

Granted, not everyone needs this mod and just wants the CMS gone, etc... but for those that want it enabled, but limited in access, this'll do that.

Are so many Vb users so arrogant, that they actually have to try and find what they "think" to be a better method than what the mod is trying to achieve? I read through this all, and it seems to me trek has brought you guy's something useful and specifically handles something that should be in vbulletin by default. Show some appreciation for the effort people, cause it's attitude which makes modders come and go!

First of all, let me start by saying that I really appreciate Trek's effort in making this mod.

I was looking for a way to completely disable the CMS and I stumbled into this mod, but it was not exactly what I was looking for because my needs are different.

I thought other users could be in my same situation so I thought it was helpful to post what I found out in order to disable the CMS without any hack/mod, that's it.

Replicator, if this is arrogance from your point of view then we have a different way of defining it. ;)

Thanks again Trek, and keep up the great job. :D