Mike Maughan wrote:

Morning all,

I'd like to set up security on a MW site so that:

• the world can see the main page
• only logged-on users can go further
• users have to be approved before gaining initial access

Failing this, all under security, pre-approved and I'll do a separate index page.

Is there a straightforward way to do this, please?

In LocalSettings.php:

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false; $wgWhitelistRead = array("Main Page", "Special:UserLogin", "Special:RequestAccount");

and install http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount

See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access for more details.