New to making websites - how do I password protect a part of my site??

londonman81

I'm very new to website creation and am making a website where I want some pages to only be accessible to certain people.

I want each person to have a unique password and username which they enter into the login page. Then they are taken to a personal page where they can access the necessary info setup for that person.

I have made a page (using a drag & drop website program) with a couple of username & password entry boxes and a 'login' button.

I would like to know how I can get this to work. How do I get the website to check the entered username & password against the correct one and then to take the user to their page?

Many thanks!

sra

londonman81 wrote:

I'm very new to website creation and am making a website where I want some pages to only be accessible to certain people.

I want each person to have a unique password and username which they enter into the login page. Then they are taken to a personal page where they can access the necessary info setup for that person.

I have made a page (using a drag & drop website program) with a couple of username & password entry boxes and a 'login' button.

I would like to know how I can get this to work. How do I get the website to check the entered username & password against the correct one and then to take the user to their page?

Many thanks!

I'm just looking around 100webspace for the first time

It has a really simple system. You just tell it what directory you want protected and what the usernames, passwords will be:

http://hostingrapid.com/tutorials/supremeserver_tutorial_12_creating_managing_password_protected_areas_ppas.htm

wolfman

Depends what language you're writing the website in. It'll vary. For example in .Net you can specify which directories to allow access to in the web config file, and the server will error on any unauthenticated requests.

Or a simple way of looking at it, upon logging in you set some sort of session variable. If ever this variable is null when the user requests a page, then you redirect them back to the login page.

intel

http://support.34sp.com/tutorials/plesk7/plesk7_eu_ppdirectory.php

Same as sra's really with plesk..

blinky

Useful tool for making .htaccess and .htpassword files for Linux / Unix / BSD hosted sites.

http://www.clockwatchers.com/htaccess_tool.html

tigermatt

You can either use a web hosting company as previously suggested (easiest option) or you can use a JavaScript script. The Javascript option isn't as secure as the others though.

If you are coding scripts in a scripting language such as ASP/PHP, you could write a file that talks to a database and confirms whether a user has permission to login etc.