This is my first entry anywhere, so obviously, I need help big time. What’s needed is help in setting up a password protected site. It has to be locked down pretty well and controlled by the client, w/Log rolls. They’ve changed the security parameters overnight, but not the my deadline, and I am lost on the subject and need help yesterday, tonight would be good… Yeah, it’s about that bad. The sites about completed, and Yes, I have a PayPal account! Thanks in advance for any consideration,
Where are you hosting this site? If you can tell me more about the
server, I may be able to help you. When you say you want log rolls,
they want to see a record of each login?
I have some code I could cut out of an existing site that does this,
but it’s pretty strictly written in PHP5. It probably won’t work at
all in PHP4, and even though that version has been end-of-lifed,
there are still budget hosts out there that haven’t made the jump.
Walter
On Jun 26, 2008, at 5:26 PM, er9 wrote:
This is my first entry anywhere, so obviously, I need help big
time. What’s needed is help in setting up a password protected
site. It has to be locked down pretty well and controlled by the
client, w/Log rolls. They’ve changed the security parameters
overnight, but not the my deadline, and I am lost on the subject
and need help yesterday, tonight would be good… Yeah, it’s about
that bad. The sites about completed, and Yes, I have a PayPal
account! Thanks in advance for any consideration,
Walter, thanks.
At the moment, I’m using DogBark.
Their server’s running Apache w/support for PHP.
Here’s more information: https://dogbark.com/questions/
Let me know what I can do on this end.
Thanks again,
Here’s an easy way to figure out exactly what they have on their server. Make a plain text file, using TextMate, BBEdit, TextWrangler, or any other plain text editor that will not add “rich text” elements to the file. Name it something obscure, like asdfsadfy.php. Put the following line of text in it:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
Upload it to your server space, so that it is in the publicly-viewable area, and then e-mail the exact URL to it to me at waltd[at]wdstudio.com
That command will create a very very tall page which will have all the details I will need to determine what you have going for you. By the way, I like the FAQ at this host – very cheeky!
If they want the entire site unaccessible maybe you could put it in a protected folder and password protect that. Only problem with this is you cannot have any links to the pages within that folder.
Walter, thanks.
There has got to be an elegant way to plug this into the front end of a site.
The Log In page needs to have forms, or a link, or a window to forms to be able to send information to the client, to apply for access to the Real website.
Client needs to be able to send Password or code back to members email.
Log In Page also needs forms for site approval or not… Is that close?
(Not the terminology, but the thought?)
And the ability to keep track of passwords and logins?
I’m new at this, so that means you can read all this in question mode.
Believe or not with your help, I’m learning a lot, (but I’d rather not share that with the client right now.)
Maybe later…
Could you make a little site map? I’m getting lost in your requirements. It’s very easy to secure an entire site, or a directory within a site, less so to secure random pages or directories in a site.
You’re going to need some way to mark the pages that need login, and that will either take the form of a bit of code you paste into the page markup, or an interface in the security system that allows you to check off the pages you don’t want just anyone to see.
Another thing to think about here is navigation. If you noticed on the Web form for this mailing list, when you’re not logged in, you have fewer navigation choices than you do when you are logged in. The navigation (and most other parts of the site) are aware of who you are, and adjust accordingly. This is not something that gets bolted on, it’s designed in at the core. The idea is that you don’t present someone with an option that they cannot get to. Thou shalt not tease, in other words.