Private picture gallery

[dahly]

Here is my question. How can I add a private picture gallery. We are a small
photographers business and the business is now picking up and we would like
to offer a private "proofing" section to our website so that our clients can
actually go there and view and select their pictures instead of us having to
go meet with them to get there choices. It would have to be password
protected for the clients own use. Is this something that could be done with
front page. From what I can see, my webserver does support this kind of
feature but is frontpage design to do it? I have been looking around and
nothing seems to what I am looking for.

Anyone can help?

 

[Steve Easton]

You would create a folder for each customer and then password protect the folder.
If you're hosting on an Apache / UNIX server with the web masters CPanel,
you can use CPanel to set the password for the folder.

obtw, don't forget to watermark the images with an image editor...!!


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[Andrew Murray]

I thought I posted a response here, but it appears either it got lost in
cyberspace or I didn't end up sending it.

My suggestion was to use this product for protecting directories:

www.directorypass.com

It allows you to set up users with a username & password so they can access
their folder on your site (I assume you have it so there is a separate
folder for each client's gallery). It simply utilises the htaccess feature
of Apache (Linux) to protect folder/directory on the web server.

Steve Easton has given the same idea, but mentions setting this up through
CPanel.


DirectoryPass is a Perl/CGI script that provides a simple user interface for
doing the same thing.

If you want something more elaborate, try www.locked-area.com which is a
more fully functional membership management system and can use MySQL or text
file for its data base. (ideal if your host does support PHP scripting but
doesn't support MySQL). HOwever this is probably a secondary option a and
not as secure as using MySQL.