Password?

[Don]

I have seen websites where you must enter a password in order to enter the
site. I am in the process of developing a site and do not want it to be
viewed until ready. However, I do have my advisors (critics) who will need
access in order to assess progress and provide feedback to me.

How can I do this? I am using FP XP and the website is hosted on a server
without FrontPage extensions.

Thank you.

 

[Tom P. Willett]

Password Protect Part of a Web:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;301554
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| I have seen websites where you must enter a password in order to enter the
| site. I am in the process of developing a site and do not want it to be
| viewed until ready. However, I do have my advisors (critics) who will
need
| access in order to assess progress and provide feedback to me.
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| How can I do this? I am using FP XP and the website is hosted on a server
| without FrontPage extensions.
|
| Thank you.
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|

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Change the name of the default document on the site to something like,
test.htm

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[Don]

Thank you to all who answered - including the private emails.

While I will eventually learn to actually have password protection, I think
the simplest and fastest way to fully meet my needs is to rename the default
document and not publicize the site. Oh, and maybe not be so vain as to
think anyone would actually want to look at it anyway.

 

[Andrew Murray]

I have seen websites where you must enter a password in order to enter the
site. I am in the process of developing a site and do not want it to be
viewed until ready. However, I do have my advisors (critics) who will need
access in order to assess progress and provide feedback to me.

How can I do this? I am using FP XP and the website is hosted on a server
without FrontPage extensions.

Thank you.

if you're on Unix/Linux you can use htaccess which can protect a certain folder

you specify, or the whole site if necessary It is fairly secure but if you only
have your client or whoever viewing the page before it goes 'live' then this
should be enough - no one would know about it, if you haven't listed it on search
engines at this point.

Otherwise there are a variety of things (cgi scripts, javascripts and the like)
on the web for this purpose.

Regarding anything in frontpage like that, well I suppose the form validation
might be a simple way to do it, where you specify a <input text> field must equal
a certain value (being the password) but I doubt this is very secure, since you
can go to the html code and see the "password" in the code.
YOu can also set your input type to password so you see asterisks (*) instead of
the characters of the password itself.