Thanks Jeeves. I will look

anorton — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:03:32 +0000

Thanks Jeeves. I will look into Drupal and other CMSs. I appreciate your help and will let you know how I decide to go.

That helps, but what's

JeevesBond — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:35:43 +0000

That helps, but what's inside the directories? If you just need to show a directory listing, then create a PHP script that will show the directory contents.

The next thing to do is make your PHP script only show the directory listing if the user enters a username and password that's in a database. This is somewhat insecure, in that someone with a password could give others direct links to the files in the directories, up to you if that's a concern or not.

If the contents of the directories are Web pages you should probably bite the bullet and use a CMS. There are plenty of Free ones out there (free as in beer and freedom), personally I recommend Drupal. But you should try-out a few before making a decision.

Tell us where you need further help and we can get into specifics.

Hi Jeeves, Thanks for the

anorton — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:55:56 +0000

Hi Jeeves,

Thanks for the reply. My first post was a bit unclear. I manually grant access to people (readers) for specific directories, I use cpanel to create a username and password for each person and then email them the username and password manually. Instead of setting up the usernames and passwords myself, I want someone else (i.e., my daughter) to do it forme. I would give her the list of directories, usernames, and passwords, and she would manually set them up. However, I don't want her to have access to my cpanel because I don't trust her not to blow my site up when I'm not looking. I hope that is clearer and thanks again for the reply.

Norton

Tricky. To answer this we'll

JeevesBond — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:49:14 +0000

Tricky. To answer this we'll need to know a little more about what you're trying to do. Is this a directory of miscellaneous files, or some Web pages? How are these third parties accessing the site, over HTTP (using a Web browser) or FTP?

Secondly, you want third parties to be able to create usernames/passwords themselves. I'd normally suggest using .htaccess, but that would probably be too difficult for these third parties.

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