Router interceptor and Authentication

Hey I’m a complete newbie in docusaurus and I am loving it ❤️

We have a private document that we want to publish it and make it accessible to our members but we need some sort of authentication even the most simple one with a hard coded username and password…

I made a simple front-end login page and I managed to get it working only for FIRST page which is the main one in the classic theme.

Seems like when user goes to directly to one of the doc page route bypasses the main page…

I was wondering if there is any API to intercept and play around with the router by using the classic theme itself. I do not want to eject or extract the theme itself and go into rabbit whole of how classic theme made and etc.

[lex111]

We are using a react-router and as far as I know there is no route guard, so the only and best option is using a proxy server or similar feature provided by your hosting provider.

[amimas]

I think you may have better luck with looking into actual deployment platform. Otherwise, you’re changing the internal behaviour of Docusaurus linking. That can make it difficult to upgrade your instance of Docusaurus, unless there’s a way to do it properly.

I deployed my site in AWS (S3 + CloudFront). Plus WAF service linked to the CloudFront made it possible so that the site is only available from certain IP addresses. You can also integrate single sign on services with CloudFront. It all depends on how and where you’re deploying the site.

Hope that helps.