Basic Access Authentication

[SnS]

Hi

I'm new to the forum and need some help please.

I need to produce a website for public viewing (no problem), but I also need to build a Members Only section link with Basic Access Authentication (members login using common user name and common password).

Anyone have any suggestions how I do this please?

I'm using Xara Web Designer 6.0

Thanks.
SnS

[gwpriester]

Welcome to TalkGraphics SnS

Do a search in this forum for password protection. I am pretty sure this has been covered.

You cannot do this with Web Designer as such. But you can add this using a placeholder.

You will need to find a script (and I think you can find a link to such a script in some of the posts on this topic) and then add the script to Web Designer via a placeholder.

A placeholder is just a rectangle you add and then add the script in the Website Properties > Placeholder > Replace with HTML Code tabbed section. This adds the script to the published HTML page.

[slavelle]

I use the vAuthenticate script for this purpose: http://www.beanbug.net/vScripts.php

[SnS]

Hi Slavelle

The link provided doesn't appear to exist anymore.
Any other suggestions?
Was this html script that you used in the placeholder in Web Designer?

Hi GW

Can't find any other information on this forum that provides a solution to this.
I guessed that inserting script into the placeholder would be the answer but I need the script to do this.

Thanks
SnS

[gwpriester]

I know this has come up, but my rusted out brain cannot remember where.

Try doing a search on Google for password protection scripts.

[slavelle]

Wow - I was just there yesterday afternoon looking at the doc to see if there was a way to setup automatic password change requirements...

Here's another link where you can download the same script: http://scripts.ringsworld.com/user-a...onfig.php.html

Hope that helps - and hope he gets his site back out there.

In short, you need to download and unzip the script to the same folder where you export the Xara site. There is a readme.txt file in the zip file that tells you what to do to get it installed. Basically you configure a few settings, import the stuff to a mysql database and then follow the instructions on how to make a page check the login. This is the part that would be included in the placeholder. I figured my way around it in an hour or two - now I use it whenever I need some simple logins.

[jwhitham]

I suspect that, for a change, I've actually understood the original question, and the rest of you haven't!

For users to open a page using a common name and password simply requires protecting the directory containing you HTML with a .htaccess file. There are many tutorials available on setting up such a file, but they probably won't be necessary as virtually all hosting services provide a control panel with a section named "Protected Directories" that will set it up for you.

No form is required as a client browser will provide a username/password dialog when encountering a protected directory.