[simonbegg]

Hi,

I’m having an issue setting up bbp Private Groups to work exactly as required.

I’ve set up a private forum to be visible only to logged in users (I also have other forums visible to all).
This works fine in that the forum is invisible to non-logged in users.
However when a non-logged in user goes directly to the private forum url (eg http://teamtwobees.com/forum/facebook-advertising/) they are presented with a 404 page. I’d like these users to be redirected to a log in page and then redirected back to the private forum after having logged in.

I’ve set the ‘URL of redirect page for NON-LOGGED-IN’ option but this doesn’t seem to have any affect – users still get the 404 page.

What is the correct way to achieve what I’m looking for?

bbPress v 2.5.6
bbp Private Groups v 2.5.6
WordPress v 4.1.1

Thanks

Simon

[Robin W]

check that you have put the url in correctly – copy from the setting into your browser and check that it works it needs to be the full url

[simonbegg]

The URL is definitely correct.
Is what I’m trying to achieve standard functionality?

[Robin W]

Can you post here what you have put into the setting?

[simonbegg]

Just trying to redirect to the login page, have tried other URL’s as well.
http://teamtwobees.com/wp-login.php

Click to activate forum visibility is ticked.
Forum visibility is set to ‘Private’

Thanks
Simon

[Robin W]

yes for a private forum with visibility that is the expected behaviour.

If the forum is private then it is not seen by non-logged in users, so the logic is that as you don’t expect non-logged in users to know that the forum exists, you wouldn’t want them to know that a topic exists, and login would tell them that they url existed, so they get a 404 in all cases.

Set the forum to public, and the logon screen will appear.

[simonbegg]

Ok, makes sense. Think I’ve got the hang of it now.
Thanks for your help,

Simon

[Robin W]

Great – glad you’re fixed !

[Paal Joachim Romdahl]

I added a link to a private forum in the menu so that a logged in user could easily access the forum. Yes I could add a menu for logged in users, but I decided to instead redirect the not logged in users.

Here is the code I used:

// Redirect private bbPress forum to specific page.
add_action('template_redirect', 'private_content_redirect_to_login', 9);
function private_content_redirect_to_login() {
  global $wp_query,$wpdb;
  if (is_404()) {
    $host = $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
    $path = dirname($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
    $forums = "forum";
    $location = "https://direitoshumanosangola.org/not-logged-in/";
    }
    if(strpos( $path, $forums ) !== false){
      wp_safe_redirect($location);
      exit;
  }
}

I made a tutorial for it here:
https://www.easywebdesigntutorials.com/hide-buddypress-pages-and-bbpress-forums-from-not-logged-in-users/

[Robin W]

that’s great – thanks for posting your solution and a tutorial – that will definitely help others 🙂

[meilleurgrossiste]

hello,
Thanks for the tutorial

[ruthvant2022]

Hi this function no longer works in PHP8.1, can you do an update?

It’s complaining about these two lines

if(strpos( $path, $forums ) !== false){
wp_safe_redirect($location);

[Robin W]

what is the exact error?

[ruthvant2022]

Hi
Warning: Undefined variable $path in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/themes/AHWM-COM/functions.php on line 362

Warning: Undefined variable $forums in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/themes/AHWM-COM/functions.php on line 362

Warning: Undefined variable $location in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/themes/AHWM-COM/functions.php on line 363

It stops anything else loading the page is just blank other than this message. If I remove the function everything works.

[Robin W]

php 8.1 is a lot more fussy

try this (untested but should work)

function private_content_redirect_to_login() {
  global $wp_query,$wpdb;
  if (is_404()) {
    $host = $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
    $path = dirname($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
    $forums = "forum";
    $location = "https://direitoshumanosangola.org/not-logged-in/";
		if(strpos( $path, $forums ) !== false){
		  wp_safe_redirect($location);
		  exit;
		}
  }
}

[ruthvant2022]

Spot on, thank you.

[Robin W]

no problem – glad you are fixed 🙂