Password protect a site

[CuriousGuy]

I have a website within a three frame layout, and one of the windows needs to be password protected.
How do i set the password, and prompt the user to enter it prior to accessing the site?

Any help at all will be much appreciated

 

[MrNegative]

There a 2 easy ways i can think, first one is download a cgi password script(asuming your server allows you access to a cgi-bin). You can find heaps at

http://www.hotscripts.com

Or secondly (if your server is a unix server) connect to your site place the file(s) you want in a new folder, then creating a .htaccess file which passwords protects teh directory. If you know nothing at all baout web servers i recomend teh first choice, most cgi scripts are easy to configure, no knowledge or perl required.

 

[madhouse]

Another alternative is to have an Access DB that stores the passwords - would mean writing some of the web pages in ASP to enable this to be done.

 

[cian]

Easiest way I see, as already mentioned, is to put all pages you want to protect in a directory which has a .htaccess and .htpasswd file. When the page is requested the user will be prompted for a username & pass.
Setting this up is very easy.


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http://www.endamcg.com

 

[CuriousGuy]

Thank you very much, i appreciate it.