How to use SB as CMS/blog?

Tricks & Techniques
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Hi all!

I followed the great Guide here and installed SB on my public webserver.
What i want to achieve is to use SB as a blog where anonymous visitors only have read access (without login, obviously) and a login capability for myself to add pages.
Any hints on how to achieve this?

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Only viable way is hosting two instances.

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Great! Works “like a breeze”, however…

  • SB_READ_ONLY (==Experimental==): If you want to run the SilverBullet client and server in read-only mode (you get the full SilverBullet client, but all edit functionality and commands are disabled), you can do this by setting this environment variable to true. Upon the server start a full space index will happen, after which all write operations will be disabled.

This is true and not true. The anonymous user (webuser) can modify anything he/she wants. It just doesn’t get saved. Once the non-anonymous user (admin) changes a page, the then page gets reloaded in the shape the admin wants it to be.
It’s a bit of a new experience, but it does what it needs to do.

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Made a PR for that.

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I updated to V2 and in V2 the behaviour is correct.