Freeway cannot run scripts or commands on your remote server. And any security that is worth the name is enacted on your server, entirely outside of Freeway’s realm.
At a minimum, a security script that ran in PHP and used a database of some sort to authenticate users (the db could be nothing more than a text file in a secure location) would still require you to do some fiddling with .htaccess files and hidden folders – all things that the “Just Use An Action” crowd are fairly leery of, or downright resistant to. An Action could write and upload all the scripts needed, but those last few steps would require some actual technical effort and precise work. That’s the lowest possible bar for getting a “pretty” login screen and bookmark-proof security, but it’s not as low a bar as, say, the Carousel Action.
As has been mentioned over and over here in response to this question, the easiest thing all around is to use your hosting provider’s control panel to password-protect a folder on your server. While not idiot-proof, and while it does require you to spelunk in the depths of cPanel or whatever fresh hell your host prefers, it is actual security and it is set-it-and-forget-it easy. It’s definitely not pretty, though.
Walter
On Sep 6, 2013, at 12:03 PM, Robert wrote:
I’ve reviewed many of the related postings here regarding password protecting pages, folders, and sites.
It would be great if Softpress (or someone) included an action for this (along the lines of the simplified Forms action). While there is the Password Protected URL action, as Walter pointed out in one of his responses, this is more of a ‘parlor trick’ that doesn’t provide true security.
I would appreciate any suggestions for an easy to implement password protection system (as I’m not at all proficient at PHP or any particular coding for that matter).
Thanks,
Robert
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