Preserved Topic: Password Authentication

I need to make a certain portion of a site I'm working on password protected. What are my different options, and which option is best (free)? Thanks in advance.

.htaccess is one way of doing this mbridge.. I dug up this archive http://www.ozones.com/forum/Archives/Archive-000003/HTML/20001001-2-000093.html

..has a few links that look useful and also over at Bignose they have a tutorial on setting up .htaccess. In a nutshell, you place a file in the directory you want to control access to via a username and password.. http://bignosebird.com/passwd.shtml (good overview and tut)

This can also be achieved using CGI/Perl scripts so a search on cgi shuold drive up some good reference websites with advice/free scripts you could use also

hope that helps

~Vp~

I can set up the .htaccess fine, but I don't have telnet access, so I can't set up the .htpasswd. I tried using some canned scripts for the .htpasswd, but none of them seemed to work. Any ideas?

Hmm, the only thing you *really* need the telnet for is for changing file permissions. If you use "port" mode, you can usually do this through the FTP programs too. You do have to know the absolute path to where your files live, (The UNIX path, not the URL!), but this should all be do-able with nothing but FTP, I've done it before. (.htaccess, that is...)

Your pal, -doc-

Oh yeah! I guess you do need that .htpasswd, eh? Here's a website that'll set one up for you, at http://www.visi.com/support/webpages/access/user.html

Your pal, -doc-

Thanks doc, got it!