Customers need to access private pages on our web through one generallink?

[jenineb]

Hi

I've developed our company website which is being hosted by our
service provider on a Unix server. I can have this changed to a
Windows server if I have to, but I'd rather not try to sell this to
our management at this point.

As I had a lot of trouble trying to setup password I bought a 3rd
party program to help. This was fine for one page but now our needs
have changes.

We have a link called "Enter"

When a customer clicks on this hyperlink button I want them to be
directed to their own personal page.

This is the way I see the button working:

1. Click on Enter
2. Displays a username & password promt box/page.
3. Enter my name/password.
4. Finds the page linked to this username and displays it (this is the
dynamic part I think).

How does it tell who you are and which page it should be opening so
that you cant visit anyone elses page.

I thought of just having a list of names on the page and hyperlinking
each one idividually but this is messy and very unprofessional
looking.

I just spoke with my host and they confirmed that I can setup password
protected folders on their server, but can't use the Subweb feature of
FP2003.

I will continue to look through this forum but must admit I'm getting
very confused.

Thanks in advance.
Jenine

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Will require a database and server side coding
- both depend on what your host supports on Unix
(on Windows you would use Access and ASP)




| Hi
|
| I've developed our company website which is being hosted by our
| service provider on a Unix server. I can have this changed to a
| Windows server if I have to, but I'd rather not try to sell this to
| our management at this point.
|
| As I had a lot of trouble trying to setup password I bought a 3rd
| party program to help. This was fine for one page but now our needs
| have changes.
|
| We have a link called "Enter"
|
| When a customer clicks on this hyperlink button I want them to be
| directed to their own personal page.
|
| This is the way I see the button working:
|
| 1. Click on Enter
| 2. Displays a username & password promt box/page.
| 3. Enter my name/password.
| 4. Finds the page linked to this username and displays it (this is the
| dynamic part I think).
|
| How does it tell who you are and which page it should be opening so
| that you cant visit anyone elses page.
|
| I thought of just having a list of names on the page and hyperlinking
| each one idividually but this is messy and very unprofessional
| looking.
|
| I just spoke with my host and they confirmed that I can setup password
| protected folders on their server, but can't use the Subweb feature of
| FP2003.
|
| I will continue to look through this forum but must admit I'm getting
| very confused.
|
| Thanks in advance.
| Jenine

 

[Dan L]

Although labor intensive (depending on how many customers you have), one way
would be to use cPanel to create a directory/folder for each one of your
customers, then password protect that directory. Put the customer's user
page in the directory as 'index.html' (or whatever your default page title
must be) and provide them with the username and password to access the
page/directory. The database solution suggested by Stefan would be much
better.

 

[Andrew Murray]

A basic user management system is www.directorypass.com - one CGI/Perl file
allows you to easily set up "protected folders".

A related product - a fuller featured user-management system is
http://www.locked-area.com/?dp

These are primarily design for Unix/Linux servers.