how can i disable the anonymous access to my coppermine photo gallery?

Answer by: George Kaloyanov, Aplus.Net Knowledge Base Support

Coppermine is a multi-purpose, fully-featured web picture gallery written in PHP and using a MySQL database. It is available for installation through the Aplus.Net Control Panel for the following Unix-based hosting plans:

Business Class Unix
Pro Unix
eCommerce Unix

I. Here is how to modify the user settings of your Coppermine Photo Gallery:

Start by logging into the Aplus.Net Control Panel at http://cp.aplus.net using your Registration Number and Customer Password.
Select Web Hosting from the top navigation bar.
Next, select Hosted Domains and click on Manage Hosted Domains.
Now, select the hosted domain that you’d like to manage.
Click the Design tab.
Click the Coppermine Photo Gallery icon.
Go to the Config section.
Click the Configuration button. You will be automatically logged into your Coppermine Administrative Panel and redirected to the Gallery Configuration section.
Expand the User settings menu.
You have several options that can be modified in the User settings section of the configuration menu:

Allow new user registrations - Defines whether new users can self-register or not. If you set this to NO, only the admin can create new users and the "register" link won't be displayed in the navigation. The default value is “No”.
Allow unlogged users (guest or anonymous) access - When set to "No", unlogged users (i.e. guests or anonymous users) can not access anything in your gallery except the login screen (and the registration screen, if you allow registrations). Completely disabling anonymous access will probably decrease your site's popularity. Use this option only if you need your gallery to be absolutely private. The recommended setting is to leave anonymous access enabled and use the more specific permissions by groups and albums settings instead. The default value is “Yes”
User registration requires email verification - If set to YES an email will be sent to the user that will contain a code to activate his account. If set to NO, user accounts become immediately active. The default value is “Yes”
Notify admin of user registration by email - If set to YES an email will be sent to the gallery admin when a new user registers. The default value is “No”.
Admin activation of registrations - Enable admin activation. When set to yes, a gallery administrator must first activate the new registration before the user can log-in and take advantage of any registered user privileges. The default value is “No”.
Allow two users to have the same email address - Allow or prevent two users from registering with the same email address. Recommended setting is “No”.
Notify admin of user upload awaiting approval - When enabled, the gallery admin receives an email notification of all pics that await for his/her approval. This option is only recommended for websites with low or medium traffic. The default value is “No”
Allow logged in users to view memberlist - When enabled, an additional menu item "Memberlist" is displayed in the Coppermine main menu if a user is logged in, to let him see a list of all users, with stats on their last visits, uploads and quota usage. The default value is “No”.
Allow users to change their email address in profile - This option impacts the user's profile page, it determines whether or not the user can change his email address.
Use this option wisely, as the old email address of a user is not preserved after a change: if you allow users to change their email address, abusers may change it to a non-existing email address (e.g. after uploading some pics that go against your gallery's rules) - you would have no chance of tracking this user. The default value is “No”.
Allow users to retain control over their pics in public galleries - When enabled, both the admin and the uploading user can edit and delete files that were uploaded to a public gallery. Of course the user must have permissions to upload to the public gallery in the first place. The default value is “No”.
Number of failed login attempts until temporary ban (to avoid brute force attacks) - To make brute force attacks (where a hostile script tries to log into coppermine as admin by running through all possible combinations of username and password automatically) less effective Coppermine temporarily bans the IP address of a possible attacker after a certain amount of failed logins. This way, the brute force attack would need way to long to try all possible combinations. With this setting you specify the maximum number of failed log-in attempts before the IP address of the user is temporarily banned. The default value is “5”.
Duration of a temporary ban after failed logins - This value specifies the duration of the temporary ban (in minutes). The default value is “10”.
Enable Report to Admin - When set to "yes," this feature will allow users to report on uploaded files or comments to the site admin. This setting is dependant on e-cards being enabled. Only users who have permission to send e-cards in the 'groups' settings are able to send reports. The report icon is hidden from those not allowed to do so. The default value is “No”.

Make your changes and click the Save new configuration button.

II. Coppermine Documentation:

An extensive documentation (in HTML format) for the Coppermine Photo Gallery is uploaded to your FTP space as part of the installation process. The documentation is located in a folder named docs which is created inside your Coppermine installation directory.

Examples:

If you have installed your Coppermine Photo Gallery in a sub directory of your /html, the documentation will be located at:

http://yourdomain.com/cpg/docs/index.htm

If you have installed your Coppermine Photo Gallery in a subdomain named cpg, the documentation will be located at:

http://cpg.yourdomain.com/docs/index.htm