Some of you might know that I'm in the process of setting up a domain for the company I subcontract to, well I've hit the wall on this one. The company that is now hosting the site originally told me that we would have public ftp availability on the domain, after the money had been paid for a years hosting they sent me an email saying they screwed up and this facility isnt available Now I have to try and set it up in a different manner. The short story is that I am looking for info on httpd and how to get it working. most of the available literature is taken from a exceedingly badly written tech page. The result I am trying to achieve is this: I need clients of the company to be able to access pages & files after entering username/password Heres hoping someone has already had to jump through these hoops, all help appreciated as always. Thanks, David
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Posted by Samazon (Member # 408) on :
David,
I'll talk to my husband and see if he has any answers for you. We'll email a response if we (he) come up with anything.
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Posted by David Fisher (Member # 107) on :
Nice site Sam... yours? I couldnt see the thingumee that I was looking for on the site, but all help is appreciated, at the very least some fresh ideas would be a help David
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Posted by Samazon (Member # 408) on :
Nooooooo, David...I certainly can't take credit for that site! It's just a site that I think is very nicely done, has some great design and has what I thought you may be looking for.
My husband said he uses (Macromedia) Flash to do his client/password thingies. On the site I listed, it looks like they use some sort of javascript code.
Mark MatyawhateverhislastnameisfromNewYork (no offense Mark, I'm just too tired and lazy to go get the correct spelling) seems to know his chit when it comes to that kinda stuff. Maybe he'll jump in here with some help?
Sam
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Posted by Vern Keller (Member # 580) on :
Thought I'd throw in my 2cents. We do hosting (been doing the internet thing since late 1994). first, what type of server are you hosted on? If Unix with Apache web server software, then you need to be us the .htaccess. If you are hosted on NT and using IIS3 or 4 your hosting company should be using DAF (www.daf.com) or authentix (www.flicks.com). But, your host has already told you that they don't provide the service, so you are going to have to go to an alternative route. You can set up a set of scripts in your cgi-bin that basically will protect anything in the subdirectories of the cgi-bin that you specify. You can get these at places like www.cgi-resources.com (hire someone to install them, trust me, unless you know Unix you don't wanna do this yourself!). Or, if your host supports .asp, then you can get .asp scripts that will user:pw protect your files just by including a tag line in the html of the protected pages. I know it sounds difficult, but it's not as bad as it sounds. If you want, email me admin@groupv.net and I'll point ya in the right direction.
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Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :
There's another way that's as simple as clicking a button on the mouse.
Find out if your host has FrontPage extensions installed on the server.
If so, use front page to access the site, create a new web inside the <Root Web> then set the permissions for that web to allow registered users browsing access.
Setting it up this way will allow users to login, view and download files, but will not allow them to delete or change files unless you grant them access to do so.
This is how I have my server setup. I use www.web2010.com as my host, and I am using a UNIX server with apache software and MS FrontPage Server Extensions installed. I have anonymous FTP, secure FTP, telnet access, secure web server, all kinds of goodies available.
Ask your provider if they have FrontPage Extensions available. If they dont, dump their service.
You can move your domain to any server in the world, so dont feel like you are stuck with a particular hosting company.
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Posted by Mark Matyjakowski (Member # 294) on :
I'm NO net guru (copy and paste type of coder haha) Don't know what level of "security" your looking for but if you just want to re-direct based on name+password here's a simple one I found http://javascripts.earthweb.com/repository/script27743.html view the source ... it's a pretty simple script (but should be linked to externally so visitors can't right click to the passwords) There's a bunch more at javascripts.com in the security section. hope this helps
Thanks a heap folks, fresh info did get the juices flowing again. I decided after a bit of research to just set up my own ftp site. Thanks for the help, I'm wiser x10 now about plenty of new stuff. David
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