Question "Guest" viewing the board

I have set up my forum to be for Registered User only, but sometimes I saw a Guest is viewing our forum based on the information provided in the message board regarding who are viewing the forum.

Is there anyway to 100% avoid an unknown Guest viewing our messages?

done with this?

>> Kunena Configuration >> Security >> Security Settings >> Registered Users Only >> YES

I have set it to "YES" since the beginning.

if your intention is really to restrict guest access to your forum, you may set the forum menu item to registered only, not to public.

bytebandit01 wrote:

if your intention is really to restrict guest access to your forum, you may set the forum menu item to registered only, not to public.

That does not solve this problem. I have a Kunen Forum restricted to registerd Users, and an Joomla Installation, restricted to registered users. And I see a guest sometimes too. Only the Homepage with login is visible to every Internet- User.

I guess, but I don't know really, (it is an interest question), if the joomla-visitors are counted in Kunena Forum Online Stats , too. Or, if the timeout of session in Kunena makes me or another logged in user to a guest, because he has still the browser-window of the forum opened.

My situation is same as you. The menu item for Kunena Forum is for registered user only.

Spiders? Bots?

hm good idea. I don't know, the validate processor of W3C get no access on protected sites. If a spider could get it?

Edit: If we trust google, we can listen to these words -.- :

If you need to keep confidential content on your server, save it in a password-protected directory. Googlebot and other spiders won't be able to access the content. This is the simplest and most effective way to prevent Googlebot and other spiders from crawling and indexing content on your site. If you're using Apache Web Server, you can edit your .htaccess file to password-protect the directory on your server. There are a lot of tools on the web that will let you do this easily.

Yes i have this problem as well. Noted in this post

www.kunena.com/forum?func=view&id=1007&catid=4#1007

Lintzy wrote:

bytebandit01 wrote:

if your intention is really to restrict guest access to your forum, you may set the forum menu item to registered only, not to public.

That does not solve this problem. I have a Kunen Forum restricted to registerd Users, and an Joomla Installation, restricted to registered users. And I see a guest sometimes too. Only the Homepage with login is visible to every Internet- User.

I guess, but I don't know really, (it is an interest question), if the joomla-visitors are counted in Kunena Forum Online Stats , too. Or, if the timeout of session in Kunena makes me or another logged in user to a guest, because he has still the browser-window of the forum opened.

a follow-up question would be.. what if you would be a guest user, can you really access your forums which is set to registered users only? if not then you need not to worry about non members accessing forum contents as they can't really access it.

i believe the guests shown in kunena forums are based on your sites guests count.. like your home page.. not really on your forums page..