eople who were desperate for some Joomla knowledge. I had recreated their website for them, and today they asked me to “create the accounts.” They organize a yearly event, and to do this they use a website; which isn’t available to the public. Of course, the “account part” was already solved ages ago – I even told them just that before – but I remained patient. While still pondering on the e-mail I came up with an idea. What if I forced people to log in before they could visit the website itself? Since they didn’t have an “open registration” that should pose little problems. The only difficulty was to transform this idea into reality. I Googled for a possible solution, and of course the Joomla Community delivered.
A blog post on Joomlatools offers a solution that works. It involves a hack of one of the core files. I’ve tested this just today, and it works perfectly. I’ve made a minor change to their solution, to ensure that users – should there be any – will still be able to visit the site while you make this minor change.
How to get it done
- Open the file in /includes/application.php
- Find the following line: if ($this ->getCfg(‘offline’)&& $user -> get(‘gid’) <’23’
- Change the line to: if ($this ->getCfg(‘offline’)&& $user -> get(‘gid’) <’18’
- Save the file, and overwrite the original file.
- Once this is done, set your Joomla site to “Offline”.
You’ve now made a change to how Joomla behaves when the site is set to offline. Normally, only the super administrators can still visit the site when it’s put offline – but this change will allow registered users to visit the site, when they log in. A login screen will also appear; which is just what we need!
If you feel like changing the way this login screen looks, the people at joomlatools mention that you can edit the file in /templates/system/offline.php and copy it to /templates/(your template)/offline.php.
Once you follow these steps, you’ve transformed Joomla to a site that’s reserved for registered users only!
<Sources: Joomlatools.com>
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Nice one, was looking for something like this without having to convert everything to a Registered Menu Item, Article, Section, Category and Module :P.
Yeah, that’s a serious pain in the ass. Just FYI: people won’t be able to register using this setup, though.
And you might have to make the changes again if you upgrade to a newer version of Joomla since the file you edit might be overwritten.
Thanks for the detailed tip, looking for a solution to my problem posed by the customer. Good job, thank you.
Thanks for your tip.
There are a problem with the component sh404.
it’s not good with the profil register…
A solution ???
Are you saying you’re having problems with the user registration component?
The modification 23 to 18 + sh404 component in case of offline simply allows only the administrators to register. the records will not pass . oups !
a simple register no work
ok avec cette option pour intranet, j’ai utilisé JOOMSEF
I confirm that this will not work with sh404 installed also if component and security functions are disabled. I have to remove it completly to let it work.
How to register if site is Offline? If you are hacking this file, you cant eather register.?
It seems to work also in J1.6 when you do this:
open /includes/application.php
find: if ($this->getCfg(‘offline’) && !$user->authorise(‘core.admin’)
change ‘core.admin’ to ‘core.login.site’
Please confirm
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does this also apply to Joomla 2.5?
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