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Hi: on my website I need to be able to post the minutes of Presbytery
meetings, which must only be accessible to presbytery members.
Currently, I put them up as password protected pdfs. This has the advantage
of being the simplest: we issue the password to the presbytery, change it
periodically, and it saves me a lot of authentication headaches. The drawback
is it makes the minutes not searchable (say somebody wants to do a search to
discover when the pby adopted a mileage policy, etc.)
My site is constructed in FP2003, with server extenstions and IIS on the
webhost.
My understanding is that if I wanted to create a password protected "area"
on the website, that the best solution would be to create a "secure" subweb,
and enter the headache of either issuing the entire pby a username and
password, or to go the individual username/password route, and add them
individually as permitted users.
1) Is this the best solution for a "secure" area on a website?
2) Is I went the subweb route, once somebody had been authenticated for log
in, would the subweb be searchable for someone logged in? Would it not be
searchable for someone not logged in (I am assuming I would then put the
minutes up as non-passworded pdfs within the passworded subweb.)
Any advice about the simplest and most graceful way to establish a secure
but searchable (for authorized users) "area" on the website would be most
gratefully appreciated.
Erin Cox-Holmes
meetings, which must only be accessible to presbytery members.
Currently, I put them up as password protected pdfs. This has the advantage
of being the simplest: we issue the password to the presbytery, change it
periodically, and it saves me a lot of authentication headaches. The drawback
is it makes the minutes not searchable (say somebody wants to do a search to
discover when the pby adopted a mileage policy, etc.)
My site is constructed in FP2003, with server extenstions and IIS on the
webhost.
My understanding is that if I wanted to create a password protected "area"
on the website, that the best solution would be to create a "secure" subweb,
and enter the headache of either issuing the entire pby a username and
password, or to go the individual username/password route, and add them
individually as permitted users.
1) Is this the best solution for a "secure" area on a website?
2) Is I went the subweb route, once somebody had been authenticated for log
in, would the subweb be searchable for someone logged in? Would it not be
searchable for someone not logged in (I am assuming I would then put the
minutes up as non-passworded pdfs within the passworded subweb.)
Any advice about the simplest and most graceful way to establish a secure
but searchable (for authorized users) "area" on the website would be most
gratefully appreciated.
Erin Cox-Holmes
