topic Restrict Access to Alfresco Explorer in Alfresco Archive

Restrict Access to Alfresco Explorer

hartjed — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:45:53 GMT

We need a way to prevent login for un-authorized users or networks into Alfresco Explorer. I can't seem to find anything in the documentation for this. Our goal is to only allow customers access to Share and restrict their ability to login to the Alfresco backend (Explorer).Thanks,Jed

Re: Restrict Access to Alfresco Explorer

mrogers — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 22:53:39 GMT

I don't think there is a neat way of doing this.

The problem is that some of the alfresco URLs need to be available, while others to do with explorer do not.

At one point I experimented with removing the content of the main page in explorer so you could log on but then saw a blank screen. That worked but was not very elegant.

Re: Restrict Access to Alfresco Explorer

hartjed — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 23:21:59 GMT

I don't think there is a neat way of doing this.

The problem is that some of the alfresco URLs need to be available, while others to do with explorer do not.

At one point I experimented with removing the content of the main page in explorer so you could log on but then saw a blank screen. That worked but was not very elegant.

I managed to do this with Apache virtual host configuration paramater:

<Location /alfresco>
        AddDefaultCharset Off
        Order deny,allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from x.x.x.x (add networks here)
</Location>

This end up showing a default 403 error page for anyone not in the allowed network. Then you can just create your own custom error page as desired.