Very easy to install, this hack is a big improvement in showing that the board is indeed active yet keeps the posts locked to unregistered guests. I like it.

BTW, for those that might be interested, I installed this on vB 3.0.0 Gold without any problems.

You can check it out at predsff.com/forums

I really like this however I'd like to see it work on select forums only... can that be done?

Use this code, replacing X with whatever forumid you want to block to guests:

Does work for me.

ok it works now :-\

So what's the problem then..?

Yes look for this

Fantastic! :D

Clicks Install...... This should`ve been in from scratch ;)

That does work for a single forum. Is there a way to block multiple ones?

Just keep on adding AND $forumid == X after AND $forumid == X

Hmm, for some reason that didn't work... should it be AND $forumid == X OR $forumid == X OR $forumid == X OR $forumid == X OR $forumid == X OR $forumid == X ???

Yep that was it... I changed the AND to OR and it works now. Thanks!

2 questions, how would i go about only applying this to certain forums and also making sure that those threads are also unaccessible via the archive?

that's one question answered :)

i thought of another question is this/can this be used to just "override the visiable but must be registered to view threads" option or is it all hardcoded?

the reason i ask is because i don't want unactive usergroups viewing the threads either.

Well the above worked great to tell a guest they needed to login but when I'm logged in even as an admin I get the error:

you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

Great Hack. Thx

Great Hack Gary,
I have a question. With non apache servers the archive is disabled. What is the implecation with this and spiders.

It should still be working fine, because this hack has nothing to do with the archive, really :)

I understand your comment however if running and IIS setup with no archive ability then aren't spiders unable to index the site?

I probably worded it wrongly.

The hack by the way works perfectly. It should be the default setup IMHO.

Cheers.

Yes! I have just noticed this too and thought it was just a problem with Vbulletin itself until I cam across your discovery and after testing your right.

Is there any chance of this getting fixed or a work around?

Is there a simple way to just make it show a ? or - when the postcount is zero?

Awesome! Thx!

Hi. When i browse into archive/index.php i get a blank white page.

If i understood correctly, i insert right after this code:

$title .= ' - ' . $foruminfo['title'];
}
else
{
$do = 'index';
}

This code:

if ($bbuserinfo['userid'] == 0 AND !preg_match("#(google|slurp@inktomi|yahoo! slurp)#si", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']))
{
print_no_permission();
}

What might have gone wrong? :ermm:

Are you logged in?

Ooops! I fill silly! :speechless:

Loged in, and its ok. Thanks Gary

is there a way to restrict access to non-vb pages???? Meaning users have to log in to browse certain pages of the site?

Use this at the top of your files, changing the forum/ to match your site:

For the showthread.php edit, instead of the normal text, my file says:

I put the added text under that ^, and it didn't work.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Hi all!

This seems to still block the MSN spider. I want him to be able to browse my site with his friends. How can I do this?

Thank you

Nevermind. It works perfect now that I figured it out.

Hi,
makes it sense to expand the spider and bot line to other names like
???

If you are using vbindex just change the following to prevent showing the preview on mouse over threadtitle of lastest threads for unregistered people.

find in Template vbindex_latestthreadbit :
and replace it with:

I am feeling really stupid cos i cant get this hack to work: my postcount remains at 0 at all forums. I am using another (finnish) language at my site here , but that cant be causing it, can it?

Any ideas?

Using VB 3.01

Nice hack! I hope this has the intended effect that I desire to have happen, to decrease lurking as unregistered and convert (at least spme of) them to registered users on my small board. Thanks.

BUMP. So where are the smart hackers? I still have not received an answer to my question. How do I make sure MSN has access to my archives as well? And if you want to throw in Jeeves or any other good ones please go ahead!

Thanks!

Hi Streetjob,
I use the hack with the line I wrote few postings before
now since 3 days and the site was visited from several spiders and bots right now. Just have a look at the attached .jpg to see that MSN has access to the Archive and also to the forum.

Another question to all,
Is it possible to show unregistered guest a message which show that they have to register to read threads when they are in the archive ?
At the moment the archive shows a blank screen for the guest.

any idea to fix this ?

Okay, i fixed it with this change.

find in /archive/index.php:
replace it with:

Wow! Thanks Tom! I did see your previous post but it didn't seem like you were 100% sure. And since these are hacks I don't want to run the risk of doing something bad to my site. Anyway, thanks again and i'll give this a try!