OK, many of you have noticed my "leave of absence" and I thank you for your thoughts.
It is due to my efforts to help a very dear friend get her website running properly.
Right now I am losing hair trying to secure a Members Only area of the site.
The htaccess file should work, but it winds up requiring a sign in every time you try to navigate pages within the members only folder.
Interestingly, the problem only happens with Internet Explorer. I wrote and tested it all using Firefox and have no trouble navigating, but IE requires a sign in for every page!!
The site is hosted on a Linux server. I heard that htaccess is geared for Apache servers only.
So I have two questions, the answers to which which will hasten my return to RPGMaking:
First:
Is the htaccess and htpassword combination usable on Linux Servers and if so where can I find a Complete-ish tutorial to help me understand what is going wrong? Even knowing what book to buy would help.
I am completely self taught and have HUGE gaping holes in my knowledge of the New Basics (when I learned to program I was punching cards!!)
Second:
Is php / mysql a better way to approach this on a Linux server?
I can find plenty of books on that, but it is even newer to me than html!
I think Someone here may be able to help with this, but anyone with extensive knowledge or just ideas on where to find Complete info on htaccess stuff, please respond!
I found Many, many examples of htaccess scripts but they had no explanations of what the commands are doing or where they come from! Not even an identification of what scripting language they seem to use!
I am completely lost.
And it is keeping me from RPGM2! (I made a promise...) (I always keep my promises).
So... In brief:
HAAAAALLP!!
It is due to my efforts to help a very dear friend get her website running properly.
Right now I am losing hair trying to secure a Members Only area of the site.
The htaccess file should work, but it winds up requiring a sign in every time you try to navigate pages within the members only folder.
Interestingly, the problem only happens with Internet Explorer. I wrote and tested it all using Firefox and have no trouble navigating, but IE requires a sign in for every page!!
The site is hosted on a Linux server. I heard that htaccess is geared for Apache servers only.
So I have two questions, the answers to which which will hasten my return to RPGMaking:
First:
Is the htaccess and htpassword combination usable on Linux Servers and if so where can I find a Complete-ish tutorial to help me understand what is going wrong? Even knowing what book to buy would help.
I am completely self taught and have HUGE gaping holes in my knowledge of the New Basics (when I learned to program I was punching cards!!)
Second:
Is php / mysql a better way to approach this on a Linux server?
I can find plenty of books on that, but it is even newer to me than html!
I think Someone here may be able to help with this, but anyone with extensive knowledge or just ideas on where to find Complete info on htaccess stuff, please respond!
I found Many, many examples of htaccess scripts but they had no explanations of what the commands are doing or where they come from! Not even an identification of what scripting language they seem to use!
I am completely lost.
And it is keeping me from RPGM2! (I made a promise...) (I always keep my promises).
So... In brief:
HAAAAALLP!!
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