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Author Can i add a password onto a cerain section on my site?
Matt L
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13th May 09 at 09:12   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I want to add a password so not everyone can access the portraits section but i want it to come up with a message saying email me for the password etc... how do i do this?

Neo
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13th May 09 at 09:26   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
something called htaccess could be your friend
Brett
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13th May 09 at 10:02   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Would've been easy to do that on BWF
Matt L
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13th May 09 at 10:29   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
there is an option on my current host to protect certain domains but i tried that it it still gives me access to the section
noshua
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13th May 09 at 10:32   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
which host?

edit; ctrl+f5?

[Edited on 13-05-2009 by noshua]
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You could always use a CGI/ASP script depending what the server is running.
Matt L
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host - fractix and yeah i did refresh it even tried a new explorer box.
Sam
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13th May 09 at 12:49   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Yes just .htaccess and .htpasswd.
Matt L
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say whaaaaaat
Ian
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13th May 09 at 16:42   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
.htaccess is best - even if get a script to do it you would still not protect the images themselves from being viewed if someone knew the web addresses.

Speak to your ISP see if they support it and if so how you can go about listing the users/passes.
noshua
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If you can use htaccess, use this generator (as I'm guessing you won't know how to use htaccess);

http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/htaccess-generator.shtml
noshua
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13th May 09 at 22:15   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
just had a nosey on fractix's website and at their control panel (from the demo)...

make a new folder on your domain called 'new'

so http://www.mattlindop-photography.com/new/ i'm guessing?

next go into your control panel and open up the 'website password protection' area

where it says 'directory name' type in 'new'

for the username and password enter 'test123' for both.

reply here once you've done it and i (or we) can test it

quick note, is the page your trying to password protect in the root (http://www.mattlindop-photography.com/) or in a folder after root? for example;

http://www.mattlindop-photography.com/new/page.html

because; looking at the control panel, you can only password protect a folder, rather than a file, in which case if you only want to protect a single file and not the whole folder - you'll need to use htaccess
Matt L
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14th May 09 at 08:27   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I want to protect this section of the site
http://mattlindop-photography.com/galleries/portrait/gallery-port.htm

so if ill try it again and see if it works.
Matt L
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14th May 09 at 08:29   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
its worked cheers

when i tried it yesterday i protected
http://mattlindop-photography.com/galleries/portrait/gallery-port

and it wouldnt work but now i have protected
http://mattlindop-photography.com/galleries/portrait

and its worked
noshua
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14th May 09 at 12:07   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
you're welcome mate, yeah their password protection in the control panel is a bit shit - seems daft only allowing you to password protect a directory rather than a page.

 
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