Creating a Member's Area

Article Topics: Member Area

Adding a Member's Area

Please Note: Member Authentication is done using Apache OpenIDC. You can configure these settings by following the guide found on CMS Member Authentication.

To set up a Tour or Member Area, you will first need one of the sites set up in NATS.

See our Creating a new Site in NATS article for a guide on what you will need to set your site up in NATS.

Setting up your Member Area first will ensure an easier process.

1) Navigate to the Member Area and select “Add New.”

2) Add a Member Area Name and select a base Theme such as Helpful Hands, a great starting point for a modern pay site.

3) Once the Member Area has been created, you'll be on the Setup Tab, where you can set details for the member area, such as the Server Location, Document Root, and Age Verification. Configuring these settings will help provide you with server configuration instructions later in the setup process.

All required fields will be denoted with a red "Details Missing Tag".

• Server Location - The server from which the Member's Area app will be served.

  • Local to NATS Server - The same server as your NATS install.

  • Remote - External Server.

• URL - The full URL for the Member Area.

• Document Root - The file path on the server to the document root for the Member Area.

• Authentication Schema - Used to Authenticate Members.

  • Apache with OpenID Connect Member Authentication - Authenticates members using OpenID Connect.

  • Public - Anyone can access your Member Area.

• Age Verification - Select between no age verification or Yoti Age Verification.

4) Navigate to the General tab to view the Member Area Overview Page. Create a secret preview key with at least 20 characters and no symbols using your chosen password generator and insert it into the "Preview Secret" field.

Please Note: The Preview Secret will be used in the URL when previewing a Theme, allowing you to send previews of Themes that you are working on to partners.

5) After setting the Preview Secret, you'll notice a warning near the "Login Redirect URL". Here, you'll set the login page of an already created tour, usually in the form of <tourdomain>/login. This is to ensure that anyone hitting the member area has to log in first.

For information on creating a tour, click here.

7) You'll also see a warning near the "Associated Tours" section. Selecting an existing tour within your CMS will give that tour access to content published to the current Member Area.

8) Return to the Server Setup, where you'll be presented with server configuration details specific to your Member's Area.

It is at this point that you will want to contact your server host to configure the VirtualHost configuration with the sample provided in the Server Setup tab.

Additionally, you will want to ensure your host adds the following line to the configuration:

Alias "/config.json" "/home/nats/cms_configs/<areaid>.json"

Where <areaid> is the unique ID of the Member Area, which can be found on the General Tab.

Alias "/config.json" "/home/nats/cms_configs/1.json"

9) Navigate to the "Access" tab and select the "Add New" button to create a new Authentication Rule.

Creating the Authentication Rule allows Members who have signed up from a tour specified in the Rule Target access to this Member Area.

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