Private site
Basics
A private site is not open for viewing to any user who is not an authorised member, although admins can add Wikidot users to an Extra Access list using the site manager which provides read-only access to the site.
Tip
- Do NOT close your site - at least at the beginning - if you seek help from the Community. On the contrary give a maximum of rights, and sometimes administrative rights to well-known community members.
- Do NOT forget that all changes can be watched and reverted.
- sometimes new starters of a private site - creating it in one go with account setup - have problems with loading the new created site. there is a tip which can help:
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- if the site is private - than there are more sectrity task to run - could be that this is catching with your cookies or browser setup.
- Sign off from wikidot
- go to wikidot main page ( www.wikidot.com)
- login in wikidot over main page.
- go to "my sites" in "xour account summary
- click with right mouse on the site you are member or admin
- select open in "NEW TAB"
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- Or open a new tab manually and write ( after login on main window) the adress of your site in the url.
Hello. I created a site called epic-fail.wikidot.com that was set private from the get-go. When I clicked the link to access it, it truly was an EPIC FAIL. It continued to cycle that it was contacting the site but nothing ever loaded. It went on like this for 20 minutes before I hit the stop button on my browser, and opted to create the non-private epic-fail-redux.wikidot.com, which is working like it should.
My best guess is that I wasn't set as a member when I create the first epic-fail, which is an EPIC FAIL in and of itself. I'm thinking it might be some kind of bug because it would be pointless to allow an option to create a Private site during the site's creation, wherein the creator is then locked out from the get-go. Since I can't even access the site, I can't delete it.
The Contact Us page of Wikidot said to check with the forum before emailing support, so I'm floating the problem. Any help regarding the matter will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I can delete the site for you since I have permissions to delete spam sites and users who are spammers. The tool we use (myself and others on the "spam killing team") allows us to delete just sites, or users and their sites.
If you give me the green light, I'll pull the trigger and delete that site. If you'd rather have the dev team look into this issue and try to fix it, I'll sit tight and let them take a look. After the site is deleted, you should be able to change the URL of your new site back to the original URL.
-Ed
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No Ed, if you delete a site with the spam tool that domain name is made unavilable. - it's not freed for reuse later , that can only be requested at http://site-name.wikidot.com
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Thanks for clarifying that. I thought it got renamed making the original available. Sounds like it's best to let Wikidot admins deal with this one…
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Looks like the "known" sttrange behaviour of an old bug - never solved i think - same as in
http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-248410/newb-question:seizuring-wiki-loading#post-810850
if the site is private - than there are more sectrity task to run - could be that this is catching with your cookies or browser setup…
My tip:
Or open a new tab manually and write ( after login on main window) the adress of your site in the url.
This should work
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You ARE member of this site http://epic-fail.wikidot.com/
AND you are adnin.
Go to the admin panel: http://epic-fail.wikidot.com/admin:manage …
Service is my success. My webtips:www.blender.org (Open source), Wikidot-Handbook.
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