Re: "members only" section - user names and passwords

You can use a separate directory and insert in it a file called

.htaccess

and another called

.htpasswd

There should be information on the ISP about some details of what is needed
in the .htaccess file, but here is an example:
AuthUserFile /share/isp/force9/www/to/tolksoc/htdocs/private_html/.htpasswd
AuthName "Please Log On"
AuthType Basic
require valid-user

and the password file is a list of user names and encrypted passwords. There
are various sites which offer encryption if you can't do it when telnetted
into your ISP - for example there is:
http://www.earthlink.net/cgi-bin/pwgenerator.pl

and the password file will contain entries like:

member:fQoX2lenMkWm6

The login box then appears.

For an example go to www.tolkiensociety.org and go to the members only
section.

Andrew

----- Original Message -----
From: "denise" <denise(at)amun-ra.demon.co.uk>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 12:14 PM
Subject: "members only" section - user names and passwords


> Hello
>
> Most of the HTML I have done has been static, but for the particular
> project I've been working on, there are a number of documents
> which aren't exactly confidential, but would do with being in a
> "members only" area.
>
> What I would like to have are boxes to enter user name and
> password before someone can get to this part of the site.
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction on how I go about this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Denise Davies
>

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