Access control

Hi,
Any suggestions as to the best option for access control
to a garden society website (not taken money)? We just
want to set up a private area and a public one with access
controlled for members only to the private part. Any
suggestions as to which is the best option?

Regards,

WebGuy wrote:
> Hi,
> Any suggestions as to the best option for access control
> to a garden society website (not taken money)? We just
> want to set up a private area and a public one with access
> controlled for members only to the private part. Any
> suggestions as to which is the best option?
>
> Regards,

..htaccess or build a login and verification system.
..htaccess is much easier though if there's no budget.

Richard Grove
www.redeyemedia.co.uk
www.shopmaker.co.uk

Thank you Richard. I must say that is the fastest reply ever
to a question. The other option I found on the Net was to
use a Perl script from realtimescripts.com. I have yet to
access the website (seems to be down), but in the meantime
have you any opinions?

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 1443 +0100, Richard Grove
<nospamplease@redeyemedia.co.uk> wrote:

>WebGuy wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Any suggestions as to the best option for access control
>> to a garden society website (not taken money)? We just
>> want to set up a private area and a public one with access
>> controlled for members only to the private part. Any
>> suggestions as to which is the best option?
>>
>> Regards,
>
>.htaccess or build a login and verification system.
>.htaccess is much easier though if there's no budget.
>
>Richard Grove
>www.redeyemedia.co.uk
>www.shopmaker.co.uk

"WebGuy" <webguy@home.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hi,
> Any suggestions as to the best option for access control
> to a garden society website (not taken money)? We just
> want to set up a private area and a public one with access
> controlled for members only to the private part. Any
> suggestions as to which is the best option?

..htaccess is the simplest of the actual secure methods.

Don't go with a javascript solution.

--Tina

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 1405 +0100, WebGuy wrote:

> Hi,
> Any suggestions as to the best option for access control
> to a garden society website (not taken money)? We just
> want to set up a private area and a public one with access
> controlled for members only to the private part. Any
> suggestions as to which is the best option?
>


it helps if you mention which web server your site is using. Using
..htaccess doesn't work in IIS.

--
Karim
http://www.cheapesthosting.com - Innovative Web Hosting since 1998 .

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 0908 -0700, Karim <karim3412@yahoo.moc> wrote:

>On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 1405 +0100, WebGuy wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Any suggestions as to the best option for access control
>> to a garden society website (not taken money)? We just
>> want to set up a private area and a public one with access
>> controlled for members only to the private part. Any
>> suggestions as to which is the best option?
>>
>
>
>it helps if you mention which web server your site is using. Using
>.htaccess doesn't work in IIS.

We have yet to decide but it will be one of our members free
web space. Avoid Microsoft server is the answer I suppose?
I take it then that Unix or Apache are OK?

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 0908 -0700, Karim <karim3412@yahoo.moc> wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 1405 +0100, WebGuy wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Any suggestions as to the best option for access control
> > to a garden society website (not taken money)? We just
> > want to set up a private area and a public one with access
> > controlled for members only to the private part. Any
> > suggestions as to which is the best option?
> >
>
>
> it helps if you mention which web server your site is using. Using
> .htaccess doesn't work in IIS.
>

Quite. Indeed .htaccess is an Apache http facility. There are lots of
other http servers.

Matt

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