Any Nuke'ers out there? Have a question.

[gameutopia]

Here's the deal I am messing with post nuke and somewhat of a newbie to it. I am familiar with .html and style sheets etc., but this is kind of new to me. I have the whole block thing making them show up when logged in and allowing certain links, and protecting pretty much figured out, but here is what I am trying to do that I can't figure out.

I want to have some of the traditional about us, contact, product info type of pages that anyone can view, users don't have to be logged in to view them. These kind of pages shouldn't be under the articles, topics, sections, etc. Because I don't want the link at the bottom of the page to say return to the news, or atricles, etc section when they don't have permisssion to view them. So I am not sure where I should make them or how. If I can even make just a plain old page preferably that allows html tags with post nuke or not. Also I don't want to link them to an external web page. Any ideas or suggestions? Am I just missing something?

Then for downloads should I just make a folder somewhere and put all the downloadable files in there? If so anywhere particular or doesn't matter?

I did have a few more questions, but I'll see if I get any replies to these while I try to remember what they were.

Thanks for any help.

GameUtopia

[dilligaf]

Make the pages as a regular html page and upload them. Then use Nukewrapper to call them inside postnuke

http://forums.postnuke.com/index.php...wtopic&t=27256

For any post nuke related questions go to http://www.postnuke.com/ You'll get more info and answers there than you will here.

I put all my dowloads in a folder called 'downloads' to keep everything organized then protect it with an .htaccess that only allows downloads called from my web page. If it is linked from another site (hotlink) all they will get is a big stolen jpg.
But your download folder can be called whatever you like and you don't even really need a folder.

[gameutopia]

Thanks for the input, I actually found the same wrapper you pointed me to and it seems to be working great.

I visit the nuke web site, but for the most part it's all new to me so I don't really know what I should be looking for, some of there stuff is catered to the more experienced user, although some is fairly basic and strait to the point.

When you say your download folder is protect by htaccess? Do you mean you put some code in it yourself? or just use nuke adminstration to not allow downloads from non-members?

Thanks again.
GameUtopia

[dilligaf]

I make a .htaccess file in any folder I don't want people leeching or hotlinking and I add this code

[code:1:250ee50822]
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://yoururl.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.yoururl.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/stolen.jpg [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|GIF|jpg|JPG)$ http://www.yoururl.com/stolen.jpg [R]
[/code:1:250ee50822]

you can add other files types (pdf, mpg, wav ,mp3 etc..) by just adding the extension after jpg or replacing jpg. Stolen.jpg is the file the leechers see when they try to download your file.