I have looked through the archive and I don't think anyone has raised this before, so how dow you set a section of your web site for viewing by members only?

Our society site is created in MS Front Page 6 and is hosted on a server which supports MS extentions.

www.shinfieldplayers.org.uk

Hiya

There are several ways to do this and the level of security varies on which option you choose.

First and foremost you need to know what Operating System the server runs on - windows, linux etc

Then it also helps if you know what software is installed on the server - Perl etc


The most secure is where the server authenitcates the user - (you log onto the server) to the most basic using asp code or perl that you can code or swipe from free sites. There are also programs that you can install if you are alllowed on the server that allow other options as well.

Confusing initially if you dont have all the facts initially.

Hope this helps.

One clever way which would fool most people is a password type box like this..

You have a FIELD which you typr in the name of a hidden page

i.e.

hiddenpage

Then a button that takes that and adds (using Javascript) it to a ".html" so you get

hiddenpage.html

and then forwards you to that page.

Of course you need to know the name of the hidden page to get it to work.

I'll find the code for you if you want. It's very simple.

.htaccess is the only surefire way of securing pages.

Frontpage has the functionality built into it's extensions. Have a trawl through the help and I'm sure it is really easy to do.

It is based around .htaccess on a UNIX box so its very secure.

This is ok if you have access to your server,
but if you're on a free pages like yahho, or anglefire
then you'll be pushed..

Try looking here..

http://javascript.internet.com/passwords/

http://www.javascript-page.com/right.html

http://www.javascriptcity.com/scripts/pass1.htm



This is my method...

http://www.amadrama.co.uk/password.html

instead of index you can have the page name as anything,
memberpage
or
fgdgdrgdf
even...

Thanks for that chaps
I will be trying to set this up at the week end

My brother has just set one of these up for family foto's

He used this method, although he did say it can be cracked so not for really sensitive info

Password protect your webpage

and here's another link for code to stop peeps looking at the source code of your webpages

Right click disable