Anonymous Blog under publishing site in Sharepoint 2007 (MOSS)
Some web-facing sites may need to implement a blog as part of the hierarchy. There are a few things to keep in mind when trying to get an anonymous blog to work under a publishing site.
- Make sure that in Central Administration > Application management, you have enabled anonymous acces on your web app
- Make sure that you have enabled anonymous access in your site settings for the publishing root site
- Disable the ViewFormPagesLockDown feature on your MOSS 2007 server*
*It is CRITICAL to disable the ViewFormPagesLockDown feature BEFORE creating the blog site.
- For your POSTS list, first disjoin the permissions from the root site and then edit the anonymous access settings to let anonymous users view blog posts
- If you want comments by unauthenticated users, disjoin the permissions from the rooth site and then enable view and add permissions for anonymous access users
- Repeat the permissions process for any other relevant lists that you want