Another simple possibility

devroom404 — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 21:02:46 +0000

Another simple possibility would be to add a .htaccess file to the folder, you don't want anyone else to access.

You can use content

PreciousReed — Sat, 30 Jan 2016 22:12:42 +0000

You can use content management system for that like Wordpress, Joomla or Drupal and use a Membership plugin or extension to restrict some parts of your site to your members only. In terms of forum, you can phpbb for that. it's free.

Drupal could handle all of

Megan — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 14:39:46 +0000

Drupal could handle all of that out of the box, so that might be a place to start. You can easily set your permissions so content is only visible to logged in users. It also has a (simple) forum included.

If you wanted a more complex forum you would need to do a lot more work (as we have on this site), or use another tool.