How do I protect content of one page with password?

[JuliaHolland]

It may sound silly and the solution is probably very simple but I can’t figure it out on my own.

I’m building a website for elderly cooking club who didn’t want to put their photo’s online. My suggestion was to do so but to protect the gallery with a password. No registration procedure or asking for passwords. Just one password for them all. (Nobody else will ever try to see it).

Would you be a very nice co-newbe designer or maybe a hardcore professional to show me the right direction? I’d appiciate any help.

Julia

[stevendeeds]

Just list your website as private? Building in a password isn’t that easy if you don’t know a dynamic language like php and have a basic knowledge database creation/usage.

If you just want to STORE pics on a webserver, maybe FTP login is your best bet?

[TheDoc]

You could just use htaccess to protect the folder.

[Ampitere]

A solution to avoid having to hide/secure it online is to just watermark the images. Just a suggestion.

[TheDoc]

@Ampitere – I don’t think it’s a copyright issue. I think the club members just don’t want the general public to see their photos.

[chrisburton]

I would use htaccess as well and leave your password outside of the public directory.

[djpic]

Depends on how you would want to do it. Like TheDoc and TT_Mark said, using .htaccess if you have access to the apache server would work fine. If you want something for future use or maybe like a ‘members’ area, I would use php with $SESSIONS (again assuming you are running php).

[JuliaHolland]

Thank you all for your answers. The easiest solution is probably to turn this website in WP and protect the Foto’s page with a password.

[Sinetheta]

Although WP is always a great idea for simple sites, all you probably need here is a scripted modal window to verify “password”. You’re not really trying to protect anything, just make them feel like their content isn’t publicly viewable.

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