How do i create a website with login?

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11-17-2002
hermit

How do i create a website with login?

Hi,

How do i create a site with login-password. For example i have a link to this PRIVATE SECTION. What kind of tools do i need? Please advice
11-17-2002
OneStiffRod

You need to learn what server the site is hosted on. Also, which company, probably a free one, but some pay ones simplify this for you.

There's something called .htaccess which is just a file that you can edit and upload and allows you to set permissions on FILES n' Folders.

;)
11-17-2002
hermit

i would prefer the site to hosted on a LINUX server. what do i need?
11-17-2002
OneStiffRod

Who's hosting the site? What server do they got?
11-17-2002
hermit

LINUX server
11-17-2002
OneStiffRod

Find Apache, it's server software and I believe it's FREE and meant to run on LINUX. That should give you all the info you need create a LINUX server - and it should have plenty of help and advice on how to create PROTECTED files n' folders...

Here it is, I founded it..

http://www.apache.org/
http://httpd.apache.org/

YAy..:D

Goodluck girlfriend.
11-18-2002
hermit

well im not that technical, so i will have alot of problems.

What i want is a website, with a PRIVATE SECTION. Only users with password are allow entry. How do i do what? what do i use to go code?

i host my website on a linux server(apache), but how do i implement LOGIN, PASSWARD concept?
11-18-2002
RoD

www.google.com
11-18-2002
Eibro

http://home.eastlink.ca/support/accessrestrict.html
There's a page from my ISP that explains how to do it. It should be universal across all *nix servers.
11-18-2002
hermit

hmm i guess i need more information . . . sighss
11-18-2002
Cgawd

Heres an easy way, its not totally hacker proof, but itll keep 95% of the people out http://javascript.internet.com/passw...gin-coder.html
11-18-2002
OneStiffRod

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/a...ml#basicconfig

or like I said with .htaccess files

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/htaccess.html

;)

If you have access to administration capabilities the password protection is explained in the top link. If your not an admin or cannot contact one then the other link is used.

Here's somemore .htaccess links
http://faq.clever.net/htaccess.htm
http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml
http://www.he.net/info/htaccess/demo.html

If you need more help, ask.:D
11-18-2002
hermit

well i guess i have to read it up . . on my own then. . .

i know this sound silly, but i'll be registering a site, and hope to setup some kind of authentication in some section. Sounds damn hard . . but i will give it a go,

Thanks boys
11-19-2002
Cgawd

@ my site : www.ericksonprogramming.com , the php allows peeps to log in then sections appear, go create a user name at my site, then ull get the download section
11-20-2002
vasanth

well if you use a free service i would suggest brinkster..

you can do this using ASP or PHP ...
you need to hava an access database.. and an ASP file chich asks for the username adn password.. if it matches a cookie is writeen to the host machine and when serving each page the cookie is checked.. i have done this for my home page...
11-20-2002
FillYourBrain

a small amount of php/perl/asp etc... will get the job done. Figure out what's available to you on that server and we'll see if we can help you better.
11-20-2002
OneStiffRod

Here's an example .htaccess file - this FILE is simply a text called .htaccess

Code:

# -FrontPage- IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti* <Limit GET POST> order deny,allow deny from all allow from all </Limit> <Limit POST PUT DELETE> order deny,allow deny from all </Limit> AuthName www.someplace.com AuthUserFile /www/htdocs/domains/s11/01695/www.someplace.com/webdocs/_vti_pvt/service.pwd AuthGroupFile /www/htdocs/domains/s11/01695/www.someplace.com/webdocs/_vti_pvt/service.grp

You would store your usernames and password in a FILE called .htpassword - Here's how the .htpassword would look:

Code:

onestiffrod:ghyrxy123

SEE my username is on the leftside and on the right is my password.

There is a little bit to learn here but it looks more complicated than it really is.
11-20-2002
beely

Re: How do i create a website with login?

Quote:

Originally posted by hermit
Hi,

How do i create a site with login-password. For example i have a link to this PRIVATE SECTION. What kind of tools do i need? Please advice

hehe.... you wan esay code? no problem!!
check at my index.htm (http://dd.na.to), there's a link "admin", link it. and then view the source code and copy it. easy easy easy!! :D
11-21-2002
hermit

well im not confident on doing scripts like php or asp. looks damn complicated . . .

jus tell me in simple terms, what do i need to learn ?
PHP scripts? or ASP right?
11-22-2002
OneStiffRod

http://www.euronet.nl/~arnow/htpassw...mentation.html

Here, I'll do it for ya...
Let's first create a .htpasswd file...

Code:

This is the .htpasswd file hermit:12345

Now upload that .htpasswd file to your web, create a special folder would be best and simply place the file there, let's just call the folder where the file is 'users'. You can see that the .htpasswd file contains the user 'hermit' with a password of '12345'.

Now, let's create the .htaccess file...

Code:

This is the .htaccess file <Files .htaccess> order allow,deny deny from all </Files> AuthUserFile /home/users/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile /dev/null AuthName Password page AuthType Basic require valid-user

Change anything in BOLD.
1) Change the AuthUserFile to the Folder where you have the .htpasswd file - this is a PATH so I think /home/ represents the root or www.yourplace.com you know your site address so all you have to change is the Folder name after.
2) You can change AuthName to something like Hermit's Page

Now, just upload the .htaccess file to the Particular Folder you want password protected.

Here's a cgi program -FREE- that can simplify some of this for you.
http://www.locked-area.com/html/dp/download.html
11-23-2002
vasanth

i would recomend ASP with an access database.. it is easy to manage accounts and you can even write and admin page to change those.. but the obnly problem is... if your database is not in a secure place.. if people know the ful path theu can download the database.....

So in my home page i have made my database file 45 char log with all junks.. still searching for a secure place to keep it....
and in ASP each page before seving itself it can check if the user is a valid one or not...

The solution OneStiffRod has given is also good but has some draw backs... you cannot easily get the state of the member on the page.. for different sectiion of users you will have to create different folders etc ect.. If you are a bugy programmer you better use his method since in ASP if you make a bug it can be exploited to access any pages.. And if he get access to one of the pages...(password protected) he can use the same trust(cookie , session variables etc eetc) whch other pages will recoognize as an authorized user...
11-23-2002
Waldo2k2

>>looks damn hard

you're not ready for this kind of thing yet. If you're not comfotable with doing the scripts either you're lazy or you're a clueless html weekend warrior (dont take that personally that's where we all start). I suggest starting otu doing simple things first to get a grip on the languages before taking on such a daunting task...for now try the htaccess thing, that'll be the easiest, no programming required.
11-24-2002
OneStiffRod

.htaccess is very robust and there is a ton more you can learn if you wish about it. For instance you can create a .htgroup file so you can have GROUPS of users with different levels of access. And I think you may be able to create/monitor sessions so you can tell if someone is currently logged in.

The database stuff can become very complicated but is very good also for security.

Here's yet another tut about it - this one is probably the easiest to understand.
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/...tml?tw=backend