Password protecting a page - and Hi. :)

[Crazydiamond943]

Hey all, first post here so:

My name is Louis, I'm 14. I live in Grimsby, UK. I've had some experience with html, to the point I could create a decent page in a text editor. I'm a little rusty as I haven't used it in a while, so I cheat and use design view. :(

I also have fairly basic photoshop and flash skills, but am willing to learn. I'm currently doing a DiDA (Diploma in Digital Applications) equivalent to 4 GCSE's.

The main reason I joined today is that I'm currently working on an e-book on how to choose your first guitar, and have created it in flash format and put it into a virtual book. Basically the folder has all the individual files, which are then shown through an .xml file. So my idea was to instead host the book, and put a password on that .xml so people can only access it if they bought it from me.

I have pretty much NO server or database experience. I need help guys :)

Thanks,

Louis.

[TheBearMay]

You could place the book/files in a password protected folder - details on how to do this are different based on the server. Are you running under Apache or IIS or ???

[Crazydiamond943]

Erm.. well it isn't actually hosted yet. I'm still developing a book. I just need to get some info together, to see how hard it would be to password protect it, so I can put my idea forward for funding, then I'll get it hosted.

[TheBearMay]

Not too terribly difficult under either scenario. IIS uses a GUI interface, while Apache is accomplished by creating a couple of text files and using a supplied program to hash the password.