How to redirect anonymous users to login page using Rules module?

Question

I'm using rules module with drupal 7 in order to redirect anonymous users to the login page, so I created a rule with react on event "Drupal is initializing", condition "User has role" with anonymous user and "Not site login url", then added an action "Page redirect" to site login url. When I tried to test the rule; drupal kept redirecting to the login page over over and over until apache server stopped working. Any recommendations.

Answer 1

The way I solved it as follow:

• Events: Drupal is initializing

• Conditions:

  1. User has role(s) - Parameter: User: [site:current-user], Roles: anonymous user
  2. NOT Text comparison - Parameter: Text: [site:current-page:url], Matching text: user/login

• Actions: Page redirect - Parameter: URL: user/login

---

Export rule as follow:

{ "rules_login" : {
    "LABEL" : "login",
    "PLUGIN" : "reaction rule",
    "OWNER" : "rules",
    "TAGS" : [ "login" ],
    "REQUIRES" : [ "rules" ],
    "ON" : { "init" : [] },
    "IF" : [
      { "user_has_role" : {
          "account" : [ "site:current-user" ],
          "roles" : { "value" : { "1" : "1" } }
        }
      },
      { "NOT text_matches" : { "text" : [ "site:current-page:url" ], "match" : "user\/login" } }
    ],
    "DO" : [ { "redirect" : { "url" : "user\/login" } } ]
  }
}

Answer 2

Go to /admin/people/permissions uncheck View published content for anonymous users

now go to /admin/config/system/site-information add 'user' in (access denied) page field

Answer 3

I'm sure you can pull this off with rules, but it would be easy to do in your theme's template.php file as well.

Something like this should work:

global $user;
if ($user->uid == 0 && arg(0) != 'user' && arg(1) != 'login'){
  drupal_goto('user/login');
}

Or, if access to the user/registration & user/password pages is still wanted:

global $user;
if ($user->uid == 0 && arg(0) != 'user'){
  drupal_goto('user/login');
}

Answer 4

The problem here is the event in question. Instead of Drupal is initializing, try Content is viewed.

Answer 5

I know this is a post from two years ago. However, the solution for redirecting an anonymous user to the user login page with rules is as follows:

• event: System log entry is created
• condition: User has role(s): anonymous
• action: page redirect value: user

Hope this will help someone.