Funnelback access to matrix asset which has deny public read permission

gavin1211 2017-09-05 09:54:08 UTC #1

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?

gavin1211 2017-09-05 11:27:58 UTC #2

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

removing deny public read permission from the assets
create a user group asset for funnelback
link public user asset under that user group
on restrictions screen of public user, added the funnelback server ip address, grant
applied read permission for the funnelback user group to the assets

plevan 2017-09-05 22:20:05 UTC #3

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in Funnelback crawling the site as though it was logged in to Matrix (so this could result in Funnelback seeing some unpublished content if the Funnelback user has access to it)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