MS Office Forum / Publisher / Web Design / December 2005
Pass word protect a web page
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patmac - 16 Dec 2005 14:19 GMT Can anyone help with information on how to password protect a Publisher Web Page? Does Publisher have a tool to do this? I'm not looking for a super-secure tool, just something that will keep prying eyes (and computer programs) from stealing email addresses/home addresses/telephone numbers from a posted page. Basiclly my site is for my little-league team, and I don't want parents and kids personal information availible unprotected. Now if you can answer this question can you suggest a freeware program?
Don Schmidt - 16 Dec 2005 15:33 GMT Password protection is a function of your ISP.
Here are the instructions from my ISP.
https://support.iinet.com/index.html?tab=hosting
Click on "Password Protect Your Website"
 Signature Don ------- Vancouver, USA
> Can anyone help with information on how to password protect a Publisher > Web [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > availible unprotected. > Now if you can answer this question can you suggest a freeware program? patmac - 16 Dec 2005 16:04 GMT Thanks Don, My ISP offers password protection. The protection they offer protects my web site from being tampered with. The protection I'm looking for would require someone who's surfing the web to sign on before they could get access to my site. The only people I want veiwing my site would be the parents and players on my team. This way their personal information (email addresses, home addresses, phone numbers, and names) cannot be accessed unless they know the password.
> Password protection is a function of your ISP. > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > availible unprotected. > > Now if you can answer this question can you suggest a freeware program? DavidF - 17 Dec 2005 13:39 GMT Patmac,
I believe you misunderstood Don. Either contact your webhost, or go to their website and see if they offer 'password protected folders'. If they do then you can place your whole site, or just the section(s) of your site that you don't want available to the general public in a password protected folder or subfolder on your site. Then when someone clicks on a link to that folder, they will need a password to enter.
Rather than place your entire site in a password protected folder, I would post the majority of your site in a non-protected folder that the general public could see with a link to a subfolder that was password protected. To break your site up into two parts, then I would suggest that you read David Bartosik's article: Building a Web Site with Multiple Publisher 2002 Files @: http://www.publishermvps.com/Default.aspx?tabid=163
Personally I might approach this in a different way. I wouldn't worry about password protecting my site. I would produce a password encrypted PDF file that is viewed by the free Adobe Reader and post it on my site. This way might be easier for people to print, easier for you to change the list as needed, and you don't have to worry about password protecting a folder on your site. See: http://www.primopdf.com/
DavidF
> Thanks Don, > My ISP offers password protection. The protection they offer protects my web [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > > availible unprotected. > > > Now if you can answer this question can you suggest a freeware program? patmac - 18 Dec 2005 21:23 GMT Thanks David, Please take a look at my site http://home.wi.rr.com/thelightning maybe I'm missing something. This may be more complicated than I thought, but please take a look. Thank you.
> Patmac, > [quoted text clipped - 60 lines] > > > > Now if you can answer this question can you suggest a freeware > program? DavidF - 18 Dec 2005 23:29 GMT This might be beyond my ability to help you, but I'll try. Hopefully David Bartosik will jump in here and review this thread, and provide some true expertise.
First of all, it appears that you are using your free 5 or 10 megs of webspace provided by your ISP. If I am correct about that, then you will probably not have the option of creating a password protected folder. The type of space you are using, is limited in features and user control....you get what you pay for. Never the less, contact your ISP and ask. If they perhaps do offer this, then post back.
Secondly, I am confused a bit about how your structured your site. When you create your home page, it would by default be named 'index.htm'. You seem to have decided to name it LightningHomePage1.htm. (By the way, it is generally a better idea to use all lower case) As a result when you click on the link you provided you see the contents of your web directory, but your home page does not automatically load. So after you make whatever changes you plan to your Pub file, I would suggest publishing your site again, and this time choose index.htm. Then delete all the files on your site, and republish/upload your site.
Now, assuming that you probably cannot use password protected folders, and though there are probably better solutions, you could do several things. Perhaps the easiest way if you don't mind getting emails or phone calls, would be to place an announcement on your first Player and Parent Contact List page, that if any Parent wants a list, they need to email you for that list. Then you can directly monitor who gets the list. In this case you simply delete most of the content on that page and just insert a text box describing the why of how parents can get the list, and include your contact information/email address. Then delete the second Player page.
Then, you could create the list in whatever format you want. Perhaps using Word saved as RTF would probably be the easiest, as anybody would be able to open that format. You might even be able to copy and paste most of the elements on the Publisher document to the Word document, though you might have to do some reformatting. Or you could directly convert the Publisher pages to PDF using PrimoPDF. Just build a new Pub doc using only those contact pages and limited to letter size for easy printing. Then when someone contacted you for the list, you could email it, mail it, fax it, etc.
If this is too hands on for you, then there are more automated ways. Create your list, convert it to an encrypted password protected pdf file with PrimoPDF, upload it to your site, and provide a link to it. Even then, the parent would have to contact you for the password, so I don't know that this would be any easier than just sending it to them upon request. However, it might be faster to upload that pdf doc to your website, and then provide the link and the password upon request. If you want to pursue this, then read this article: http://www.publishermvps.com/Default.aspx?tabid=157
Now, that's all clear as mud, right?
DavidF
> Thanks David, > Please take a look at my site http://home.wi.rr.com/thelightning maybe I'm [quoted text clipped - 66 lines] > > > > > Now if you can answer this question can you suggest a freeware > > program? Don Schmidt - 19 Dec 2005 13:36 GMT Patmac,
The folder page on your website looks like a logon/password protected area on my site. I have a button on my site that when clicked on a window pops up and asks you for a logon and a password. We keep files in the protected folder that are of a personal nature, i.e., addendums to our membership manual, by-laws and other proprietary information and some not so proprietary like Drago's Bread Pudding. Madon! A taste from the old country!
If you would like to see the access page look here and click on the "Stanza di riferimento dei membri" button below the column of Bocce Ball players. ("Members reference room").
http://www.vanusa.org/
To protect a folder it takes a couple of other files, htaccess, goes inside the protected folder and htpasswd file in the cgi-bin folder. The information from my ISP I posted earlier tells how to build. Step one would be contact the Support folks at your ISP.
 Signature Don Vancouver USA
> Thanks David, > Please take a look at my site http://home.wi.rr.com/thelightning maybe [quoted text clipped - 84 lines] >> > > > Now if you can answer this question can you suggest a freeware >> program? patmac - 19 Dec 2005 15:06 GMT It seems as if your original post was correct Don. I've looked over the htpasswd information, unfortunatly it is just a bit over my head. After viewing your web-site I've detemined that is exactly what I'm trying to do. I'll try to muddle through the instructions, my final question is can I do any major damage or lose important files while using a trial and error process following these instructions? Thank you for your time and patientiece you have been more than genoirous with both. Merry Christmas and thank you
> Patmac, > [quoted text clipped - 105 lines] > >> > > > Now if you can answer this question can you suggest a freeware > >> program? patmac - 19 Dec 2005 15:43 GMT Don this may seem simple, but how do I "upload" a file (.htpasswd) using my secure FTP program? I've created the two notepad files (.htaccess & .htpasswd) and added the text EXACTLY as shown on the help site (exept I uesd wi.rr.com instead of iinet.com and I used my own user names). I'm at STEP 3 and do not understand how to "upload", or more specificly how to "upload" to a secure directory while keeping my Publisher files intact.
Thank You
> Patmac, > [quoted text clipped - 105 lines] > >> > > > Now if you can answer this question can you suggest a freeware > >> program? Don Schmidt - 19 Dec 2005 16:52 GMT I use Publisher 2000 and when creating a website it makes several image files and a html file for each page. To upload the site I need to send all the created files to the IP server. The folder with your proprietary files, including the .htaccess file within would be uploaded to the server. The .htpasswd file is stored in the cgi-bin folder which resides on the server next to the public_html folder. The website files are stored within the public_html folder. (This is the way it is on iinet.com).
There is one obsticle you may encounter; on my server you create a encrypted password, that is you might enter "baseball" as a password but the server encrypts it to something like "gxq&*2q" and needs "baseball" to decrypt and allow access. You might try using a password of your choice without using the iinet encryption and see if it works by testing.
Try some experimenting and if you still have problems get back and we'll go from there.
 Signature Don Vancouver USA
> Don this may seem simple, but how do I "upload" a file (.htpasswd) using > my [quoted text clipped - 136 lines] >> >> > > > Now if you can answer this question can you suggest a freeware >> >> program? patmac - 19 Dec 2005 19:00 GMT Again Thank for taking the time to walk me through this,
I'm using Publisher 2003, so maybe something is different. The only way I know how to upload is to use the "drop down" from Publisher. For the life of me I can't figure out how to upload the .htaccess file to work with my web site (as I stated before this my first attempt and I apprecuate your patience)? And beyond that I have no idea where to find the "cgi-bin" folder? After contacting RoadRunner (My ISP) they claimed "there are no server based scripts on our server and therefore there is no cgi_bin folder located on the server". Am I missing something here? I feel as if I'm very close. Help.
> I use Publisher 2000 and when creating a website it makes several image > files and a html file for each page. To upload the site I need to send all [quoted text clipped - 153 lines] > >> >> > > > Now if you can answer this question can you suggest a freeware > >> >> program? Don Schmidt - 20 Dec 2005 05:45 GMT You need to create the cgi-bin folder, put the .htpasswd file in it and upload it so it is next to the public_html folder. This is done by going to the level where you see the public_html folder, then create the folder cgi-bin and then open it and upload the .htpasswd file into to it.
don
> Again Thank for taking the time to walk me through this, > [quoted text clipped - 201 lines] >> >> >> > > > freeware >> >> >> program?
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