Mandatory authentication for users to access site

[John Tate]

Hey Mezzanine Community,

I have been using Mezzanine CMS happily for my personal website for many years where I post blogs and such, open to the public.

I want to deploy another site on a subdomain where I can post blogs much the same but in a private matter, for people invited only. I basically intend to start with `pip install mezzanine --user` much like my personal site (but as another Linux user account), where most details were taken care of for me. I run Mezzanine because it got my site running quickly!

I just want to configure it so that a login is required to view any pages or blog posts whatsoever. I can't find much on doing this, and as far as changing mezzanine goes it is important the solution is the simplest one possible.

I also want it so user accounts and passwords to access this site are created by myself and myself only. Any registration features need to be disabled.

John

[Danny]

Some suggestions:

- Check the 'Login required' box on all Pages

- Update your base template to hide any "Sign Up" links

- add ACCOUNTS_APPROVAL_REQUIRED=True to your settings.py

( https://mezzanine.readthedocs.io/en/latest/configuration.html#accounts-approval-required )

This means that even of someone does sign up without your knowledge, you'll have to approve/activate the account manually as admin.

- Add the decorator @login_required to functions in views.py (and use these in urls.py as an override of the mezzanine defaults).

 See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/topics/auth/default/#the-login-required-decorator

This is likely the biggest change, as you'll want to override the default Mezzanine blog behaviour so that it uses your URLs/views rather than the default ones.

Hope this helps.

Seeya. Danny.

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