Hey guys, first off want to say sorry if this is in wrong forum, if it is please feel free to move it to correct one.

Now let me say this. I AM A NEWBIE. I am not very educated at all in this website design stuff, but im thumbing my way through and learning as I go.

I own a trophy store and sell trophies, plaques, awards, etc RETAIL to customers. But I recently imported a bunch of crystal awards from overseas at a REALLY good price. So i want to attempt to wholesale these out to other trophy stores.

Iv created a website specifically for these crystals (not part of my regular trophy site). On the home page I will have my regular RETAIL pricing that I sell to anyone. But Id like to have a link up in a corner somewhere that if you click it, it will then ask for a password and if entered correctly, will link you to another page with WHOLESALE pricing on it...

now here is the tricky part... IM A NEWBIE.. lol

i have dreamweaver and I litterally have created my entire page off of the DESIGN portion and dragging and dropping, i dont know didly squat about code...

can someone help me out please? I would greatly appreciate it... thanks

currently here is what I have, but dont like it this way

www.prestigecrystal.com <--- wholesale
www.prestigecrystal.com/retail.html <--- retail

you might want to search for a php code tha does this maybe one that self installs (or asp if you have a windows server).

The only way I know for sure to tell you about is to put the wholesale page in a sub directory and use .htacess to password protect that directory.

sitename.com
sitename.com/pricing/newpage.html
and password protect /pricing

There are scripts but hte above may be better for a beginner.

Your are on a linux box? Have a cpanel? Look for an icon labeled password protect.

Ask for more details if unsure how to proceed.

I am going to PM you a sample that I do not care to post in public.

This should teach ya how to do it right...

http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess3.shtml

-Brian

You indicated in your PM that you did not know about a control panel. That makes me think that Dreamweaver may have some publishing ability.Since I have zero experience with Dreamweaver, I will need to know the following:
How do you publish your pages to the server?
Windows or Linux server?
Private server or are you buying web space?

The process is very simple but you must have access to you cpanel control panel to implement it.

Go to this page login to the cpanel demo using demo/demo. Have you ever seen a page like this? If on a shared server you almost have to have something like this. There are other products but they all work along the same lines.

Go to the 5th icon on the second row and click on it. Follow the directions and you will see how easy it is to password protect a directory.

i use a program called coffee cup to upload my files to GoDaddy

Originally Posted by 00Bolt

i use a program called coffee cup to upload my files to GoDaddy

Coffecup FTP?

You are at godaddy and I also I a small hosting accout there.

They don't use cpanel. They have something of their own. I should be able to help you. But I will have to log in and look around for how to do it there since I never have. I am going to need to learn it for my own use at some time anyway.

Look for a post in this thread after Noon EST on Sunday.

Now I understand why people say bad things about godaddy hosting.

The control panel has very few functions. Adequate for most most people but not worth a darn when you need to do that little bit extra. With godaddy you do not even have root access to your domain space. Your access point is limited to the public html and directories under it. I am sure it makes for a lot less messes to clean up that way. Probably helps them keep prices cheap.

They do not offer a way to create a .htaccess file. They say it can be done but they offer no support for doing it. I followed and read all the links. It can be done but I don't think you want to try it. I still remember the first time I tried to do and managed to password protect my entire site. That was an interesting 30 minutes. Enjoy the laugh guys.

I did find a free php script that I think will work very well for you. If you will follow that link there is a working demo after all the examples and a download link.

IMHO a php script would be a bit more secure than Java and work for all visitors. A few people still surf with java off.

I did download the file and do plan to play with the script over the new few days so I may be in a position to help you with the setup of it. One thing I know for sure is that you want to be sure and set both of the sign ins to something. Don't leave demo/demo anywhere.

The other thing I should mention is that you need to change the page name of the wholesale page REAL soon. After posting it in this forum it will be all over the internet search engines in a few days. This forum is like real time posting to google and others.

Isn't that the truth. Don't ever post something that you need to protect unless you KNOW that no one can get to it even with the link until you get the password set up right.

Now I have a question. I want to set up a page so that I can sell a package of e-books on ebay. Now, I need the password set so that it can only be used once, and be randomly generated in whatever automated e-mail I send out to the people who buy the package. This way they can't just forword the e-mail to their friends/family and let them download it with their one purchace. How do I do that?

Originally Posted by rybczyk

Now I have a question. I want to set up a page so that I can sell a package of e-books on ebay. Now, I need the password set so that it can only be used once, and be randomly generated in whatever automated e-mail I send out to the people who buy the package. This way they can't just forword the e-mail to their friends/family and let them download it with their one purchace. How do I do that?

I recently saw a script mentioned that would do this for you. Since I spend most of my reading time here and at digitalpoint it must have been one of those two places.

You could try searching both places. If I run across the thread I will either post it here or PM you.