Re: Members

["Christian J. M&#252;ller" <cjmueller@bluewin.ch>]

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I have just read the new 3.12 UserDB chapter of controlling page access. Have you
considered this feature?
Chris


Thomas Walter wrote:

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>
> > On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Matthias M&#252;ller wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > is it possible to have a Minivend shoppingsystem, where you only can get
> > > by password if you are a member.
> > >
>
> Another way to do this is to use the .htaccess and .htpasswd files of
> your webserver (I don&#180;t know if all webserver support these files, but
> apache does).
> You can restrict access to directories (and subdirectories...) with
> these two - People who don&#180;t have a login are not allowed to access any
> file in a directory where the .htaccess resists (the .htpasswd-file
> stores the users and their passwords...).
>
> But to use them you have to (re)configure your webserver to "watch" for
> these files (in your cgi-bin or the dire where your shop.cgi lies). I
> will not explain how to do this here - look at the documentation of your
> favorite webserver.
> Of course you must have administrator-rights to do this (if not: perhaps
> you know any dark secrets of your admin ;-)...
>
> This is perhaps the easiest way for people who don&#180;t know MV as good as
> Mike does or how to program CGIs.
>
>     Best regards
>          Balu
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