GoLive password protection

[burndog]

I am totally at a loss, I have set up a password for a few pages (through golive CS2)and have uploaded to the server. When I access the site from my computer everything works properly...it asks for the password, and opens the page properly when given the password.

The password is the basically insecure version that GoLive can set up, where you use a number sign for the link and then add an action (message-password).

I thought everything was great, but from any other computer when I click on the link that should bring up the textbox requesting a password, I get page error.

Any ideas? I really can not figure out why it only works from my computer. I have re-uploaded all of my files thinking that maybe there was one on my hard drive that I had missed, but I am not having any luck.

Note that all of my links are checked as being "relative" as opposed to "absolute.

Scott...any suggestions, I have even copied all the files to floppy and accessed the page through it and again no problems on my computer, but it doesn't work on any others. There has to be something I am missing, but I can not figure it out.

[Dave]

Reading Material for you .... PDF clicky linky (http://teched.vt.edu/gcc/HTML/VirtualTextbook/PDFs/AdobeTutorialsPDFs/GoLive/GoLiveActionsPlus.pdf)

One word - Cookies (my pure guess as to the problem)

[Scott]

Sorry, I've never used GoLive and I have no clue how it would be setting things up for a password. I generally use PHP or you can even use directory protection on the host to set up passwords. Basically you would just point a link to a directory, then using the hosts control panel password protect the directory. You can generally set up multiple users and passwords with directory protection. And with PHP you can store passwords and users in a database to check against (and salt the passwords for security).

[burndog]

Thanks guys! I may look into the PHP thing (not that I know anything about it) or will contact our service provider and see what my options are. Likley it would be a better route to go anyways...Thanks again.:)

[Scott]

Check here for prebuilt php member systems Bernie. They may help.

http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Scripts/User_Management/

[burndog]

Thanks so much Scott, I think I have figured out my problem...in GoLive you originally create a site file and then build the pages. Instead of opening the site file near the end I simply opened the html file, and edited from there. So I will try this, but I still intend to check out the PHP thing, so if and when we ever need better security for these pages I will have some kind of clue.

Thanks so much Scott and Dave:)

[jemima]

Hi Burndog,

I have the same problem. have created password in golive on a page and yet it wont work elsewhere... whats the go>??> How did you fix this??