Setting Password access to web pages

[Hoppy]

Is there a standard way of setting access permissions to my web home pages?

I use Frontpage, and FTP to create my site. I can't use Frontpage to edit online, as Frontpage extensions aren't supported by my web hosting provider. Editing offline, the "Security" options are greyed out - am I right in thinking these only become available online?

There doesn't seem to be any security admin page provided by my hosting service.

I'd like to be able to restrict access to certain portions of my site using a user/password. Am I missing something, or does it depend on what the service provider allows?

[rik148755]

I think there are scripts that can be used for this.

Try here:

http://www.javafile.com/password.php

[Paul Komski]

For a simple setup Gatekeeper (http://www.pagetutor.com/keeper/index.html) works pretty well - the password is the name of the page. Change the name of the page and the password is changed.

For a much more secure setup you would need to use some server side scripting such as php, cgi, etc, but if your webhost doesnt support Frontpage extensions (which personally speaking are a pain) perhaps they don't support much server-side activity such as this.

Not sure what you mean by editing on or off line. Whether you edit pages while online or not you still need to upload the changed pages (for static pages). The only on-line type activity that comes to mind is like interactive sites, bulletin boards, shopping carts and so on which function through server side scripts accessing some kind of database on the webhosts' server. In these circumstances you still have to upload any changed scripts but the database (might only be a simple text file) is modified by interacting with the users input on the relevant web pages.

Possibly you are confusing the security/password involved in accessing the site's server to upload the pages and of having pages, which when accessed by the public have password protection before they can be read or otherwise utilised - just like the members of a forum such as this.