Password Protection

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Can somebody walk me through the process of created a few password protected pages in my site?

Thanks

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One of the easiest ways to do this does not involve FW at all.

Most ISPs provide a Control Panel of some sort (Cpanel is a v popular one)

There is a section under security that is called Password Protect Directories.

You can chose to make a folder protected

Password Protect Directories

This option will allow you to require a username and password to access a folder or folders from the web. This can be very useful when you need to limit access to a certain part of your site.

So by creating a subfolder in your FW doc that will contain your protected pages you then use your Cpanel to set up your username/password combinations for that subfolder.

David

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Sorry to jump on this thread, but would each of these folders have to
have an index.html page or can they just be named as anything?

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On 30 Sep 2008, at 23:37, DeltaDave wrote:

One of the easiest ways to do this does not involve FW at all.

Most ISPs provide a Control Panel of some sort (Cpanel is a v
popular one)

There is a section under security that is called Password Protect
Directories.

You can chose to make a folder protected

So by creating a subfolder in your FW doc that will contain your
protected pages you then use your Cpanel to set up your username/
password combinations for that subfolder.

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No, the folders do not have to have an index page.

Only do that if you want a URL like; www.mydomain.com/securefolder/

Otherwise the URL will be www.mydomain.com/securefolder/mypage.html

On 1 Oct 2008, at 07:49, Trevor Reaveley wrote:

Sorry to jump on this thread, but would each of these folders have
to have an index.html page or can they just be named as anything?

David Owen

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