Password protected site - how ?

[steve23]

Hi all,

Can anyone point me in the direction of how I get a site that is password protected - so that I can sell access to it along the same lines as though in the adult industry.

Thanks

Steve

[Tommo]

Depends how you want to go about it, sounds like you want a user system, with a signup - > payment -> full member -> access for X time or perm.

With admin capabilities.

This pretty much exists out of the box but it wouldn't be hard/expensive to achieve a custom solution.

Word press has a mod that will do this for about $50, I've used it on daily drop list sites so I show some content then the rest is for subscribers only who pay X amount for X amount of time, you can set different packages.

[sean.browne]

the usual way to put password protection on a web server folder is by using a .htaccess file. google 'password protect htaccess' should do the trick.

[Roj]

Hi Steve,

Sounds like you may need some membership site software. There are quite a few free scripts out there but I would not recommend them unless you know a bit about php. There are some pretty good packages available from about $100 and some more expensive ones up to $30,000.

Take a look at this review site: http://www.multiplemembershipsoftware.com

[Peter Bowen]

You need 2 files - an .htaccess file as said previously and then an .htpasswd file which has the username and passwords (encoded) for everyone who is allowed access to this area.

You can generate the htpasswd file from your CRM or database or even from a transaction record

[los_design]

Hi all,

Can anyone point me in the direction of how I get a site that is password protected - so that I can sell access to it along the same lines as though in the adult industry.

Thanks

Steve

Hi Steve

Do you want to password protect the whole site from the world and google, yahoo etc OR do you want to have it on a membership basis so people have to login after registration?

Peter's suggestion works for the former and Joomla CMS is perfect for the later (or indeed Wordpress, Drupal etc) and it is FREE

Hope this helps.

Regards
Daren
LOS Design UK

[Peter Bowen]

Peter's suggestion works for the former and Joomla CMS is perfect for the later (or indeed Wordpress, Drupal etc) and it is FREE

Just to clarify the suggestion that I have made works for humans and search engines. We use it for a paid access site at present (though not quite as interesting as the one you have in mind).

[los_design]

Just to clarify the suggestion that I have made works for humans and search engines. We use it for a paid access site at present (though not quite as interesting as the one you have in mind).

You can of course stop the bots using robots.txt too if you wish instead of or alongside Peter's excellent option.

Kindest Regards
Daren