Applying Security to your NodeJS pages

This original guide uses ASP.NET. Its screenshots and controls may differ from current projects.

Step 1

You can apply security to your pages and redirect users who are not logged in or have no permissions to view a specific page.

Security Protection with NodeJS

Security Provider setup with NodeJS is similar to what you are used to do for the other server models (PHP / ASP / ASP.NET), the different in the workflow is the way you restrict access on the pages. For PHP, ASP and ASP.NET you would do this using the Security Enforcer on the page, while with NodeJS you apply the restrictions on the Server Side, in a Server Action.

Server Side

First we need to setup the Server Side part.
We already created the normal server action required for a login system like login and logout. We also crated a server action called user which will be used to restrict our pages. It contains a database connection and a database query, so nothing unusual:

First let’s add the Security Provider to our server action. Right click the database connection step:

And add the Security Provider:

Set up your security provider as you usually do. We are using a database security provider in our example:

That’s how we set it up:

So just setup your security provider as you need it.

Right click the Security Provider step:

And add Security Restrict:

Select any permission if needed / if you created some, or just leave this field empty:

Then select the URL where the users who are not logged in should be redirected to:

We click the routes picker and select the login page, which we have already created:

Then select the URL where the users who are not authorized should be redirected to:

We click the routes picker and select the unauthorized page, which we have already created:

Save your server action:

Page Setup

Now open the Pages Manager and select the page which you want to protect:

Select App and click the Select Server Action in the Server Side Data options:

Select the server action called user which we just created:

Save your page and you are done:

That’s how to restrict access to your NodeJS pages.