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5 years 7 months ago #64533 by petgal
Hey there,
Trust you guys are doing well. You might remember me. I'm a fan of your products and service. I'm reinventing a site and had opted to not include JFBconnect but I've realised that the social services like FB and Twitter would in fact help the growth of my site immensely.

I have a couple questions though:
My site is currently not using my domain name but I'm developing it using the ip address at Vultr.com. Will that be a problem installing and configuring JFBconnect? Must I wait till the correct domain and everything is in place first?
I'm using Membership Pro and am having difficulty configuring it. Essentially there will be two types of registered users: regular members who will use the site for free, and business users who will choose from different subscription or payment plans. I expect JFBconnect will handle the first and MP will handle the business users. Can you confirm that there will be no problem with this? If there will be, what do you advise?

Thanks for your help
Peter
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5 years 7 months ago #64541 by alzander
Peter,
Good to hear from you, and hope all is well.

Most social networks do not let you create an application with just an IP address. They need a domain to use as that's what users will be using. There are ways around this for development, but I'd recommend getting a domain name (even a free one with something like free TK domain just to have something to test with. You can setup and test with the temporary domain and then move all the apps to the final domain when you have it.

We've never used Membership Pro, so I can't guarantee everything will work fine. As always though, JFBConnect creates 100% standard Joomla users. If they register with a social network, you absolutely should be able to funnel them through a subscription page to purchase a membership. JFBConnect shouldn't prevent or cause problems with that.

I hope that helps, but if you need anything else, just let us know.

Thanks,
Alex
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5 years 7 months ago #64542 by petgal
Hi Alex,
If you still look like your picture, you're doing well. Thanks for responding.

I think the coordination with Membership Pro (MP) will work so I'm not too concerned with that. I would like to get the domain set up now so I can test and get all login/registration out of the way. Do you have a recommendation for a non-tech person to password protect my development site? someone sent me this
www.htaccesstools.com/articles/password-protection/
but it seems daunting to me and I found this:
extensions.joomla.org/extension/site-lock/
This last seems to be able to do just what I need. Would appreciate your recommendation.

Peter
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5 years 7 months ago #64544 by alzander
Honestly, the simplest way to 'hide' your site is to set your site in Offline Mode in the Joomla Global Configuration area. With that, your site template should show a login area instead of your actual site. Once you login as a super admin, you'll be able to navigate the site normally.

It's not perfect as you're logged in, and not a guest viewing public content, but it's generally all that you need while developing. There's some pitfalls in that your site won't be public, so scraping tools like the Facebook Open Graph debugger and sharing in general won't show the content of your page. However, it's dead simple and works in almost all cases.

I think that should do it for you on the simplest level and where I'd start.

Alex
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