Allow guests to view homepage only

I'm trying to find a solution to allow users to only be able to view the homepage, but when they click on anything it re-directs to the register page.  I tried playing around with the access control list, but if you turn navigation off for guests they can't even view the homepage.  

Any ideas would be much appreciated.

finalthrill wrote:

One very easy solution is to:

1) Open Root.Head.cshtml
2) Add the following at the very top (after using statements)

@* other using statements ... *@
using Nop.Core.Domain.Customers;

@{
    if (WorkContext.CurrentCustomer.IsGuest() &&
        Request.Url.AbsolutePath != "/" &&
        Request.Url.AbsolutePath != "login") // and other pages you want to allow
    {
        Response.Redirect("~/", true);
    }
}

Not the most sophisticated solution, but it's quick and it works! :)

Thank you wooncherk.  I'm not sure how you got that code to work as it creates an infinite re-direct loop for me.

finalthrill wrote:

Can you check the updated code? I updated 1 minute after my original post. :)

Nevermind, your edit fixed it.  Thank you for the simple solution!

finalthrill wrote:

Make sure to check all the necessary pages (register, contact us and etc). Mine is just a simplified version. :)

I just had to modify it a bit to make sure it hits a topic page anywhere they try to go anywhere other than the homepage and login page:

@{
    if (WorkContext.CurrentCustomer.IsGuest() &&
        Request.Url.AbsolutePath != "/" &&
        Request.Url.AbsolutePath != "/t/PageNotFound" &&
        Request.Url.AbsolutePath != "/login")
    {
        Response.Redirect("/t/PageNotFound", true);
    }
}

Works like a charm!  Thanks again!

finalthrill wrote:

Forgot to mention, there can be a bug in my earlier code due to string comparison being case-sensitive. So we need to make sure we ignore the case. A better version is to use:

Request.Url.AbsolutePath.Equals("/login", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase)

Good catch!  I just had to add not conditions to each inequality:  


@{
    if (WorkContext.CurrentCustomer.IsGuest() &&
        !(Request.Url.AbsolutePath.Equals("/", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase)) &&
        !(Request.Url.AbsolutePath.Equals("/t/PageNotFound", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase)) &&
        !(Request.Url.AbsolutePath.Equals("/login", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase)))// and other pages you want to allow
    {
        Response.Redirect("/t/PageNotFound", true);
    }
}

finalthrill wrote:

Yeap! Sounds good! :)