TYPO3 Password protected pages

Now you know how to create pages for all the world to see. What if you want only certain people to be able to access them.

Create users/groups

Before you can create access restricted pages you must first have one or more frontend users and groups.

There are two kinds of users - frontend (orange icon) and backend (blue icon). A frontend user (also called website user) can log in to the website, but cannot change content. A backend user works in the backend and is concerned with changing the information.

Since frontend users (like pages, content elements, articles, etc) are just database elements they can be created the same way as for any other element. First click the page icon of the page where you want to create the user. Then select the "Website user" element and enter the required information.

Create login forms

Click the page module, then click on the name of the page. Click "New content". Choose login form from the content type. Select a position, name it and save it. If you enter a page reference in the "Send to page" box the login will be submitted to that page. This is used with the other box so the user is directed to the access restricted section directly.

Create restricted pages

Now you have some users and groups. Let's restrict some access. Select a section for the menu to appear and click Visibility settings. There you can set up the access to be only for the members of certain group. You can also select to include the subpages. If you add more groups then you can create different access rules for different users! Another useful options are "Hide at login" and "Show at any login". "Hide at login" is useful if you have pages with information only relevant for users not yet logged in. "Show at any login" is the opposite. If you are logged in you are shown the page. No need to be a member of particular group.