# Request Invite on Invite-Only Discourse
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-invite-on-invite-only-discourse/14208
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** invites
**Created:** [March 27, 2014, 9:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-invite-on-invite-only-discourse/14208 "2014-03-27T21:38:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Vocino](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vocino)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2014, 9:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-invite-on-invite-only-discourse/14208/1 "2014-03-27T21:38:06Z")
My Discourse forum is invite only. I love this but I would like the ability for users that arrive at the forum via search or other means to request an invite.
Currently there’s no obvious way that I can see for a user to gain access to the forum in that way.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2014, 11:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-invite-on-invite-only-discourse/14208/2 "2014-03-27T23:15:02Z")
They log in, and you approve the logins in the approval queue.
This already exists.
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### Author:  [@Pad\_Pors](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pad_Pors)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2016, 11:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-invite-on-invite-only-discourse/14208/3 "2016-06-22T11:21:04Z")
in the invite only mode, it doesn’t seem to allow non-invited users to be able to login/sign up. is there any particular setting for this?
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2016, 4:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-invite-on-invite-only-discourse/14208/4 "2016-06-23T16:26:51Z")
Here are the relevant settings from Discourse I run this fashion:
- Invite only? Disabled
- Login Required? Enabled
- Must Approve Users? Enabled
- Enable Local Logins? Enabled
- Allow new registrations? Enabled
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### Author:  [@Pad\_Pors](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pad_Pors)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2016, 4:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-invite-on-invite-only-discourse/14208/5 "2016-07-07T04:59:08Z")
thanks, so you use must-approve as a way to get invitation.
there’s a very small-huge problem, if i enable the “must approve users”, I will revoke the access of previous-members. is there anyway to inhibit this problem?
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2016, 5:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-invite-on-invite-only-discourse/14208/6 "2016-07-07T17:24:59Z")
~~The users on your system are already approved (you can see this in their admin pages)~~
I don’t expect you’d have any issues enabling `must-approve` on an existing discourse.
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### Author:  [@Pad\_Pors](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pad_Pors)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2016, 7:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-invite-on-invite-only-discourse/14208/7 "2016-07-09T07:46:17Z")
thanks and i’ll just do a double check about the warning next to this option in a new topic.
and try it.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-invite-on-invite-only-discourse/14208/8 "2025-12-04T11:10:01Z")