Password protecting a web site using FP 2000

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Brad

Good morning,
My company just gave me a plum assignment. I have to take our website
and password protect it! Now I've done a little bit of web stuff
before but this is outa my league. If anyone out there has suggestions
on how to do it it would be greatly appreciated. Heres the technical
details:

Web server isnt Apache, so Im figuring ASP

Already have a password protected directory set up through ISP, inside
my root folder they've placed the directory with the file name
"protectedfolder.txt" inside it. Now the site is built and all I need
to do is figure out how to connect A to B. The good news, according to
some of the stuff Ive read in here this is possible, the bad
news...every time I access my .txt doc for passwords Im going to kill
all of my FP server extensions (FTP only).

Normally Im smarter than the average Bear, but for this one detailed
directions would be fantastic.

Any and all help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Brad
 
See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=321439

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| Good morning,
| My company just gave me a plum assignment. I have to take our website
| and password protect it! Now I've done a little bit of web stuff
| before but this is outa my league. If anyone out there has suggestions
| on how to do it it would be greatly appreciated. Heres the technical
| details:
|
| Web server isnt Apache, so Im figuring ASP
|
| Already have a password protected directory set up through ISP, inside
| my root folder they've placed the directory with the file name
| "protectedfolder.txt" inside it. Now the site is built and all I need
| to do is figure out how to connect A to B. The good news, according to
| some of the stuff Ive read in here this is possible, the bad
| news...every time I access my .txt doc for passwords Im going to kill
| all of my FP server extensions (FTP only).
|
| Normally Im smarter than the average Bear, but for this one detailed
| directions would be fantastic.
|
| Any and all help would be appreciated.
|
| Thanks
| Brad
 
Stefan,
Thanks for your answer, very good . I've done what the link you sent
me told me to do, however just a few more questions.

- By doing what the siter told me to do, do I need to convert all the
pages into .asp now? The plan was to have one page open outside and
the remainder PW protected.

- Step 2 on the list asks for you to:

Specify the location of the Web on your server by using the following
syntax
http://your server/logon/

where your server is the name of your ASP-enabled Web server.

So in other words is this the standard set up for site architecture,
like http://www.stefansplace.com/logon/?

I've done what was asked, but every time I click the default.asp page
online to take me to the logon, I go back to the default page....now
this is all before I change the other pages to .asp (besides the ones
the tutorial asked me to make) So do I have to convert everything, and
if so, will the logon page finally work, or should I see it now?

Thanks
Brad
 
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