Funnelback access to matrix asset which has deny public read permission

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We have a number of assets in squiz matrix with deny public read permission. We need funnelback to index these, what is the best way to allow funnelback access?

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After a bit of playing about got it to work by:

  1. removing deny public read permission from the assets
  2. create a user group asset for funnelback
  3. link public user asset under that user group
  4. on restrictions screen of public user, added the funnelback server ip address, grant
  5. applied read permission for the funnelback user group to the assets
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Hi Gavin,

You could also create a user account in Matrix for Funnelback to crawl the Matrix site as.

You would need to ensure this user had read access to all of the pages you wanted to index, and then configure the Funnelback web crawler to perform an authenticated crawl of the site (logging in as a user then crawling). Keep in mind that this would result in Funnelback crawling the site as though it was logged in to Matrix (so this could result in Funnelback seeing some unpublished content if the Funnelback user has access to it)

regards,
Peter

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