I'd like to have some pages of my wiki to be only viewable by some users.

I could use htaccess for that, but it would force the users to have 2 authentication mecanisms, so I'd prefer to use openID for that too.

• I'm thinking of adding a "show" parameter to the cgi script, thanks to a plugin similar to goto.
• When called, it would check the credential using the session stuff (that I don't understand yet).
• If not enough, it would serve a 403 error of course.
• If enough, it would read the file locally on the server side and return this as a content.

Then, I'd have to generate the private page the regular way with ikiwiki, and prevent apache from serving them with an appropriate and much more maintainable htaccess file.

-- emptty

While I'm sure a plugin could do this, it adds so much scalability cost and is so counter to ikiwiki's design.. Have you considered using the httpauth plugin to unify around htaccess auth? --Joey

I'm not speaking of rendering the pages on demand, but to serve them on demand. They would still be compiled the regular way; I'll have another look at httpauth but I really like the openID whole idea. --emptty

How about mod_auth_openid, then? A plugin for ikiwiki to serve its own pages is far afield from ikiwiki's roots, as Joey pointed out, but might be a neat option to have anyway -- for unifying authentication across views and edits, for systems not otherwise running web servers, for systems with web servers you don't have access to, and doubtless for other purposes. Such a plugin would add quite a bit of flexibility, and in that sense (IMO, of course) it'd be in the spirit of ikiwiki. --schmonz

Yes, I think this could probably be used in combination with ikiwiki's httpauth and openid plugins. --Joey

If you use the httpauth and the cgiauthurl method, you can restrict a path like /private/* to be accessible only under the authenticated request uri.

Note that if editing is enabled, then you should set the restriction in lockedit's locked_pages too or they may be able to view pages by editing the page= value in the editor's query string. --mjr