Access to Home Page

[GatorNation]

I'm trying to allow a user to edit the home page (located in the root under
index.asp) but restrict them from certain folders. Is this possible? Can you
select specific files instead of an entire folder? So far it looks like they
have access to the entire site if they have access to the index.asp home page.
Any help would be appreciated.

[GatorNation]

Anyone know the answer to this?

[thdomo]

i thnk the latest version of contribute publishing services has this ability, check the download page and look for the related tech notes

this wont help much if you are not using cps though

[susi27]

This is TOTALLY possible in Contribute 3. You need to set up users and roles.
Log into contribute if you are the admin (which i am assuming you are) and go
to Edit --> administer Websites --> your website name. This is where we made
all the user roles and such. hope this helps :)

[christina.heikkila]

Not quite that easy. They page they want to give access to is at the root
folder, but if you set up a role with access to that folder, users in that role
will have the ability to edit files in any folder under that (in other words,
the whole site), which isn't what the OP wanted.

However, here is an idea which should work: Create a new folder, and move the
index page you want them to be able to edit into the new folder. You will
create a role that has access only to this folder. Now create a shortcut from
the original index.asp location to the new location, or set up the web server
to automatically redirect requests for index.asp to newfolder/index.asp. You
will either need to make sure all the links in that index.asp file are
absolute, or add a base href to the file if you're using relative links.