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Restricted page not visible when password is not required

A topic by Vivaladev created Jun 08, 2021 Views: 553 Replies: 2

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I just created a new page for my project and I set its visibility to "restricted" as I want to show it to a few people before going public.

I followed the documentation and I created a download key URL, but when people try to use it and click on the "Game page" link:

All they get is a "404 not found" error page with a frog.

Everything works fine if I set a password to view the page.

Is there any way to give access to my game's page without setting a password?

Reading the documentation it seems that should be possible, but I can't get it working.

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leafoAdmin3 years ago

What you described should work.

I currently see that your project is in “Draft” mode and not “Restricted”. Draft can only be viewed by editors (or by the special preview URL), and is not suitable to distribute your game.

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Vivaladev3 years ago

I had to change it to "Draft" as that was the only easy way to share the link with a few people on Discord.

Before doing that I tested things more with a friend and I found out that it works as expected if you enable the option "download key can be claimed", but you get the 404 error page if you don't.

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