[colette23]

I am looking for a little guidance, please. I am trying to create a password protected page that can hold a fair amount of data (16 case studies in pdf format) that cannot be searched or "googled" and accessed by persons without the password(s).

I am using GoLive to manage my webpages.

Any tips? Ideas?

Should I pay to use a service, or is it possible to create my own.

Thanks for your help!!!
Colette 23

[budster101]

If you had .mac it would be easy to create a file sharing page that was password protected. Do you have that?

It's $99.00 per year.

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Html Writer's Guild

This is a good place to start.
I don't think they have a tutorial to encrypt the passwords so if someone views your source code it's not really very secure. You can hide that though, or encrypt it. There are also ways to do that, but I'll let someone else who is much more versed in this to help you.

[jersey]

you should be able to create a .htaccess file and place it in the top directory of your site to achieve password protection.

[Briareus]

and a robots.txt file to deal with googlebot, etc.

[jay3ld]

you have a few options. there are 2 free options and 1 is easier than the other..


easy way. this will stop bots like google from searching them but allow visitors to view them.

add a robots.txt to your site web root and add

User-agent: *
Disallow: filename
Disallow: /foldername/

example

Code:
User-agent: *
Disallow: admin.php
Disallow: members.php
Disallow: /pdfs/
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /members/
Disallow: /access/security/

thats the easy way

The Hard way. this will stop bots from searching it and visitors from viewing it...
first is to create a .htaccess file and add this

Code:
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Private Access"
AuthUserFile /path/to/user/access/.htpasswords
Require valid-user

then create a .htpasswords using
name:md5password

theres some online things that will md5 it for you just google it

example

Code:
admin:uHef5tV7yJxy

that is the harder way....

[BoulderDash]

Originally Posted by jay3ld

then create a .htpasswords using
name:md5password

theres some online things that will md5 it for you just google it

example

Code:
admin:uHef5tV7yJxy

that is the harder way....

Can you please point me to "some online things" that will help creat a password? I used to use an excellent page at: http://tech.irt.org/articles/js164/, but haven't been able to access it for weeks. It used to ask you what you wanted the password to be... then select if it should be UNIX and then return the results to put into a "name:md5password" pair.

But, now it's down and I don't know where to look for an online application to do this for me. Let me know!
BD

[BoulderDash]

Originally Posted by BoulderDash

Can you please point me to "some online things" that will help creat a password? I used to use an excellent page at: http://tech.irt.org/articles/js164/, but haven't been able to access it for weeks. It used to ask you what you wanted the password to be... then select if it should be UNIX and then return the results to put into a "name:md5password" pair.

But, now it's down and I don't know where to look for an online application to do this for me. Let me know!
BD

Okay,
This worked great for me:

http://www.4webhelp.net/us/password.php

Take it easy,
BD