Setting a website to be pasword protected

John_Mc

Hi,

I've just deployed a pretty complex website for UAT and I'd like to password protect the Homepage. I don't mean a membership login, just some way of asking a vistitor to enter a password before letting them view the page. I'd imagine its a setting in the webhost control panel (I'm using Plesk). Any suggestions as to how I'd do this?

Thanks in advance

Webmonkey

Are you using Apache web server? - if so, you simply use htaccess files along with a passwd file. This is probably the most straight forward and secure way.

John_Mc

Webmonkey wrote: »

Are you using Apache web server? - if so, you simply use htaccess files along with a passwd file. This is probably the most straight forward and secure way.

Hi Webmonkey, thanks for the reply. No it's not Apache, it's running ASP.net

daymobrew

Have you asked your hosting provider?
It might be in their Knowledge Base.

Eoin

Is this any good?

How do I password-protect a web page using ASP.NET?

Edit - looks like that requires a custom page to be written.

John_Mc

daymobrew wrote: »

Have you asked your hosting provider?
It might be in their Knowledge Base.

No not yet, said I'd ask here first as I'd get a reply faster!

eoin wrote: »

Is this any good?

How do I password-protect a web page using ASP.NET?

Edit - looks like that requires a custom page to be written.

I'd rather avoid something like this, but if its the only way I guess I'll have to. Its surprising that ASP.net doesnt provide for something like this like PHP does

Evil Phil

Is this helpful? other than that you'll need find out how to password a virtual directory in IIS (which is what is running Asp.net for you). Your asp.net app runs in its own virtual directory. Dunno how to do that in plesk.