Forum/discussion permissions

[David T.]

I have used Front Page Office for several years, and I previously hosted a
group on my site which had a forum. In order for group members to get into
this forum they had to go to my site and then type a password and username in
which allowed them into the forum.....no one else could get in. That group
now has its' own website and so I removed the forum from my site.

Now I want to set up a forum for a different group, but cant find the way
that I put on the password access page to the forum previously. Can someone
help ? I know the passwords were kept on a page called password.txt and
there was a passwords.asp page also......but how do i make this and the forum
page again ? i can find nothing in the book or on the website to help.

Thanks.

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

If hosted on a Unix/Linux server see the Self Registration page template

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|I have used Front Page Office for several years, and I previously hosted a
| group on my site which had a forum. In order for group members to get into
| this forum they had to go to my site and then type a password and username in
| which allowed them into the forum.....no one else could get in. That group
| now has its' own website and so I removed the forum from my site.
|
| Now I want to set up a forum for a different group, but cant find the way
| that I put on the password access page to the forum previously. Can someone
| help ? I know the passwords were kept on a page called password.txt and
| there was a passwords.asp page also......but how do i make this and the forum
| page again ? i can find nothing in the book or on the website to help.
|
| Thanks.

 

[David T.]

Thanks for your reply Stefan, but this template is not doing what I need. I
don't need the people to register themselves, that is adding themselves to
the site and picking and choosing their own passwords, which would allow
anyone who sees this page to enter....what I need to do is to allocate the
passwords to the legitimate people. is there a way of editing that
page/template to do what I require ?

Thanks

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

No
To manage users you need a database solution w/ server side script
- if on a Windows server see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/825498/en-us

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| Thanks for your reply Stefan, but this template is not doing what I need. I
| don't need the people to register themselves, that is adding themselves to
| the site and picking and choosing their own passwords, which would allow
| anyone who sees this page to enter....what I need to do is to allocate the
| passwords to the legitimate people. is there a way of editing that
| page/template to do what I require ?
|
| Thanks
|
| "Stefan B Rusynko" wrote:
|
| > If hosted on a Unix/Linux server see the Self Registration page template
| >
| > --
| >
| > _____________________________________________
| > SBR @ ENJOY (-: [ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
| > "Warning - Using the F1 Key will not break anything!" (-;
| > To find the best Newsgroup for FrontPage support see:
| > http://www.net-sites.com/sitebuilder/newsgroups.asp
| > _____________________________________________
| >
| >
| > |I have used Front Page Office for several years, and I previously hosted a
| > | group on my site which had a forum. In order for group members to get into
| > | this forum they had to go to my site and then type a password and username in
| > | which allowed them into the forum.....no one else could get in. That group
| > | now has its' own website and so I removed the forum from my site.
| > |
| > | Now I want to set up a forum for a different group, but cant find the way
| > | that I put on the password access page to the forum previously. Can someone
| > | help ? I know the passwords were kept on a page called password.txt and
| > | there was a passwords.asp page also......but how do i make this and the forum
| > | page again ? i can find nothing in the book or on the website to help.
| > |
| > | Thanks.
| >
| >
| >

 

[Dan L]

If on a *nix server you can password protect a directory, put the forum into
that directory and then provide the username and password to all people you
want to access that directory/.folder