Password protected pages

Websites hosted on Windows Server

If your site is hosted on Windows Server, you can choose to be prompted for your user name and password every time you browse to a particular folder. This will give you a private "administration" area for your use only. Contact us to set this up.

You can also use IISPassword, an ISAPI filter available to all customers hosting websites on Windows Server. Read ASP components for instructions on its use.

There are also free scripts available for download that handle password protection for you.

• User Authentication scripts at Hotscripts.com
  A list of free password protection scripts for use on Windows Server.

Web sites hosted on Unix

If your site is hosted on Unix, you can take advantage of .htaccess, which is an authentication configuration file. Using .htaccess, you can set up an unlimited number of user name and password combinations.

• How to manually set up password protection using .htaccess

There are also free scripts available for download that handle the creation and maintenance of .htaccess.

• PHPAccess
  A free PHP script that manages .htaccess user names and passwords.