Joomla a/c sharing protection - help

Hi

I have a Joomla site with amember installed and it's working very well for managing subscriptions. However, amember account sharing protection is not working as expected.

I've set it up to mail admin if more than 2 different IPs are used in a 24 hour period.

I've set up a test user and logged in to the Joomla front end (directly, not via amember) 3 times from different IPs.

No e-mail was sent.

Looking at the test users access log in amember admin, I see only one access registered - this reflects one time that the user accessed the amember membership information screen (member.php) via a link provided to members in the Joomla front end.

So, it appears that user visits to the site are not registered in amember unless the user visits an actual amember page, is that correct? How can I set this up so that visits are registered/logged when user log in via the joomla front end but do not visit an amember page?

Thanks

Peter

I set up my Joomla template with IP-Checking with .htpasswd protection as described here*;

http://manual.amember.com/Account_Sharing_Prevention

by inserting the following into my Joomla template/index.php file:

Code:

<?php
  $user =& JFactory::getUser();   
  $user_id = $user->get('id');   
  if ($user_id)   
  {	echo "<script src=\"" . $this->baseurl . "/templates/" . $this->template . "/log_access.php\"></script>\n";
}?>

This results in multiple errors in the amember error/debug log as follows;

These errors are generated when a user is logged in to the Joomla front end. They are not generated by users who are not logged in. Logged in users all exist as users in amember.

Assistance appreciated.

Peter


*there appears to be an error on that manual page; the file that needs to be created in protected directories is referred to as 'log_access.php' and 'log_access.inc.php' leading to some confusion.

Joomla content protection

Hi

I have a Joomla site with amember installed and it's working very well for managing subscriptions. However, amember account sharing protection is not working as expected.

I need to share the articles from joomla for amember users. I tried to use ".htpasswd" method, but it is not working. Please help me in protecting the content.

I have installed amember plugin in Joomla. But I am unable to create groups in Joomla. Registered, Public group is available. But, I need to create access levels such as silver, gold, platinum. Please help me to create these levels and assign articles to those users, so that one can see their content only. Is there any plugin available in Amember for this functionality?

You will need a joomla plugin like BYOS JACL.

David

Or wait for Joomla 1.6

Turns out the cause of my problem was that I was attempting to use standard Joomla Login on front end. This does not work with account sharing.

I have now written a new login front-end login module that routes user details through login.php and therefore causes user IPs to be registered by amember and account sharing protection now works.

Happy days.

Peter

I have a Joomla site with amember installed and it's working very well for managing subscriptions. However, amember account sharing protection is not working as expected.

You can protect articles in Joomla with aMember, using aMember Article Protection plugin.