Re: Can Permalink be disabled or winked out?

Posted by GregChapman on Dec 30, 2016; 12:06pm
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Can-Permalink-be-disabled-or-winked-out-tp7597600p7597612.html

harkawy wrote

I think I screwed up the forum by attempting to redirect from the nabble site to our site.
Now as the admin, the only thing that I see within the Options button is "Subscribe via email" and the Edit this page is gone.  What do I do?
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What you describes is the appropriate action to comment out some of the HTML code that Nabble's NAML will generate. Unfortunately, I am not clear which macro you are editing so can't confirm whether it would have the effect you want.

I didn't suggest commenting out code as a solution for you at this stage as I am still not clear what it is you are trying to stop happening. That's because a correctly embedded Nabble forum with a redirect set to the page in which it is embedded can never be displayed except within the page to which it is redirected. If access to that page is then controlled by the security settings of the main site, unauthorised visitors can never reach a page that displays the forum so the URL of any Nabble permalink will always be hidden from unauthorised visitors.

It seems that either I misunderstand something or you are not correctly embedding the forum. So I can understand the issue, you need to provide me with a step-by-step of how to reproduce the problem where unauthorised visitors can break through the security built into your main site. (Click on my username to reach a screen where you can email me the details should you not want to post them here.)

I don't have any ideas why you should now not have access to the administrator options on your menu, except for the following...

I have seen your other post where you report being locked out after editing out the Nabble branding in the footer. I won't reply to that post as I sometimes believe that Nabble staff think I can crack any problem in which I engage and leave me to it. If I do not respond then they are more likely to. Unfortunately, these days they can be very slow to respond.

Removing the branding breaks Nabble's Terms and Conditions. I am not clear what measures they have in place to control/monitor those who do that, but it is possible that it is that alone that has caused the problem rather than any other edits. If so it will require someone at Nabble to fix that. Paying for Premium Support is one solution. Some do that specifically to be able to remove the branding, but most, these days, feel it is not worth it.