Unable to protect route from anonimous access in Symfony2 - php

Question

I can't understand why anonimous user can access to routes I want to protect "^/nodes$" and "^/destinations$".
Where I'm wrong? I've read with attention this resource http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/security.html but anyway those url can viewed by anonimous!
This is my security.yml:
security:
encoders:
Symfony\Component\Security\Core\User\User: plaintext
role_hierarchy:
ROLE_ADMIN: ROLE_USER
ROLE_SUPER_ADMIN: [ROLE_USER, ROLE_ADMIN, ROLE_ALLOWED_TO_SWITCH]
providers:
in_memory:
memory:
users:
user: { password: athena_user_2014, roles: [ 'ROLE_USER' ] }
admin: { password: athenaspa2014, roles: [ 'ROLE_ADMIN' ] }
firewalls:
dev:
pattern: ^/(_(profiler|wdt)|css|images|js)/
security: false
secured_area:
pattern: ^/backend
form_login:
check_path: /backend/login_check
login_path: /backend/login
csrf_provider: form.csrf_provider
logout:
path: /backend/logout
target: /
#http_basic:
# realm: "Secured Demo Area"
access_control:
- { path: ^/nodes, roles: ROLE_ADMIN }
- { path: ^/destinations, roles: ROLE_ADMIN }

Answer 1

Your paths are not part of any of your firewall-patterns. You could make the following changes for it to work:
firewalls:
secured_area:
pattern: ^/
...
access_control:
- { path: ^/login$, role: IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY }
- { path: ^/backend, role: ROLE_ADMIN }
- { path: ^/node, role: ROLE_ADMIN }
...
- { path: ^/, role: IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY }
The last path is pretty much, what anonymous: true does. When no other access-control matched, the user is not required to be logged in. If you want to be more restrictive, you could do it like the first path ^/login$ which specifies which routes require authentication. Be aware, that the first matching route is used, so be careful of how you order them.
Alternatively you could add another firewall. But keep in mind, that each firewall provides a separate login.
You can also test your routes from the console using the php app/console router-commands. If you are not sure how to use them just type php app/console help router:match for instance