Quote Originally Posted by gwpriester View Post
I checked with CoffeeCup Software who used to offer a product called Website Access Manager but they got back just now and said they no longer sell or support. There is the .htaccess file route and some of the responses in the link I posted offer scripts for this, but the result is not very elegant and I think only works with certain servers.
Acorn or Egg, any suggestions here?
I would search "secure login system php".
There is no simple fix.

This describes the basics: https://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Sec...-PHP-and-MySQL.
Compare with https://www.sitepoint.com/users-php-sessions-mysql/ and see the differences.

If you understand what's what then you might manage to produce something safe enough.

Another approach is to get your member to sign in to Google or Facebook and harness their authentication mechanisms.

Buy something like https://encodable.com/userbase/#instructions but only after trialling with Xara.
You will have PHP and MySQL setups and maintenance and no of this comes for free.

I am not endorsing any of the above, just showing how complex it has to be.

Acorn