Two issues/questions with X2

[themrfreeze]

Hi all.

I just put a server running X2 2.7 into production, and am very happy with the product so far. I've run into two minor issues though, and was wondering if these have effected anybody else.

First, I'd like to restrict access to certain pages on one of our sites. I'd like people within our organization's range of public IP addresses to have regular access to the pages, with the rest of the Internet needing to enter a username/password to gain access. It doesn't appear that I can do this with X2...I tried adding the pages in question to both the "Access Control" and "IP Address Control" sections, and entering the various allowed IP ranges into "IP Address Control", but when trying to access those pages, it *always* asks for a password, whether you're within the "allowed" range of IP addresses or not. Is this the way X2 normally operates, or am I missing something?

Second, I wanted to restrict access to some other directories with a password. There are a number of identically named directories to protect, which have the syntax:

/something/more/XXX/restricted

where "XXX" is a 3-digit number (there are approximately 30 different ones). The directories to protect are all of the ones named 'restricted'.

I tried creating an entry in the "Access Control" section using wildcards, such as:

/*/restricted
/something/more/*/restricted/
/something/more/???/restricted/

However, none of these worked...I could get into the various 'restricted' directories without entering a password. If I add a directory without wildcards, the password protection DOES work. Am I entering the wildcards incorrectly?

TIA for any help!

Chris

[jjp671]

For the first part of your post this may help, it details how to configure .htacces to redirect a visitor based on their Ip to a specified url, hence you could redirect your Ip's to your folders and redirect everyone else to a login.