[Dspace-general] Restricting Collections

[Cody Green]

The only way that I can think of is to use Apache and Tomcat.  With
Apache you can setup a Location rule to only allow access to a url
from certain hosts.  This would be placed in your httpd.conf file and
would possible look like this.

<Location /handle/123456789/4>
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from .foo.com
</Location>

Hope this helps.

Cody


On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 10:30:15 -0500, Scott P. Muir <smuir1 at emich.edu> wrote:
> I am in the process of writing our policies that we will use to support
> ETDs in DSpace.  This will be our first collection that we will
> implement.  Typically many Universities give their students the opportunity
> to restrict the web access to their dissertation in several ways.  1) One
> approach is to limit access to a select group (e.g. limited to the Dean,
> the Department head, the Advisors, and the Academic Committee)  I believe
> that can be accomplished by creating a community and limiting access to
> that community.  2) It might also be made available to anyone searching the
> database.  3) The one that puzzles me would be making access available to
> the campus community only.  From what I saw on this list recently, I
> gathered that limiting by I.P. address is not  an option.  Is that a
> correct understanding?  If so, has anyone found a way to address this issue?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Scott P Muir
> Associate University Librarian
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