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Use passwords in FrontPage2000..??

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by ds9 3 views

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I operate a small web site which sells Children's Learning software. We also supply some FREE software downloads, & FREE e-Books as an incentive to look around the site.

Now, we are planning on adding some New books from local Authors for sale aselectronic download versions. Our plan is to place each book into a separate directory (folder), protected with a unique user name and password which would be provided to the customer via e-Mail when he purchased the book.

Customer would then re-enter the site, and use the information to download his purchase. I built a Page using FrontPage2000, used two one-line text boxes, one for name and one for password. HOWEVER, frontpage only lets me send this information to a file, or e-mail it somewhere. When the correct name and password are entered, I need to have it open a page in the authors directory instead, so that the customer can gain access to download his purchase.

Anyone out there know a way to accomplish this with FrontPage 2000..?? (I'm using NT Server 4.0 w/sp6a, and IIS4.0 along with frontpage).

George

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by peyison

George,

One way to do this would be to let NT control the security. If you use NT to restrict access to each eBook folder, when a visitor tries to open a page in that folder NT will prompt for a user id and password. This might be a good option if you assign a single id and password to each folder, rather than assign each visitor a unique id and password.

Hope this helps.

by ds9

Sorry, but I tried for two weeks to make that work, but it's just to cumbersome. I finally found a third party solution that works great. It's called eBookGold from eBookGold.com this program allows you to password protect a book or even individual chapters. (Great for serials). Also can be Password only or password & username individually. No NT account necessary. Registered version, only $77.00 alot of capability for a very reasonable prices.

George

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