cookie problem?

[justme]

I have my main site calling this thing to see the latest posts in the forum. My problem is when someone clicks the link they go straight to the post.

Here is the thing, the way my forum is set up, you can't see the posts without logging in. But it seems like this thing totally bypasses that. I would prefer that

1/ when the link-title is clicked it takes the person to the main log in page and then once logged in it goes directly to that post;
or
2/ when the link-title is clicked it goes to that post. BUT instead of being able to go to other posts, like it can now, once you try to visit anywhere else on the forum or try to post you get kicked to the login page.

Is this possible as is now and I'm just not seeing it, or can it be put in any time soon?

[Patrick]

The EP-Dev Forum News script is a passive script. In other words, it does not set any cookies and it does not modify any database. The only modification that ever occurs is to its own configuration files.

In order to setup the forum the way you want it, you will need to use the forum's administrative software (it's own admin panel).

Most people will have the news in a forum/category of its own and allow public viewing of that entire forum/category through the forum's administration interface.

It seems that at the moment you have permissions setup in some strange way... and without a link I don't even know how you are attempting to restrict access (you should be using the forum's own member permissions setup, but you said the link generated by the EP-Dev Forum News script takes the person to a forum that is normally restricted to members-only... which means you have permissions setup in a strange way).

[justme]

Thank you. Silly me, I fixed the problem. But now here is what I came across. When I set the permissions to registered, and I click the feed title link to that topic, it goes to the login page if the person isn't logged in now as I want it to, but after logging in it goes to the Information page that says "The topic or post you requested does not exists". And if I am logged in and I click the link, it goes to the topic as it should. How do I solve this now?

[Patrick]

Looks like that is a forum bug... you may want to upgrade the software or confirm the bug with the forum's software creators.

[justme]

You were right. I upgraded from 2.0.17, and everything is fine now. Thanks.