can i add a password to a webpage?

[minofifa]

hello.

i have created a little website on the local server at work to help people find various documents easier (for example have placed links to many excel spreadsheets to various clients' info). There are some documents that i want some emplyees to have access to but not others. is there a way to have a password window pop up when certain lniks are clicked on? i use microsof frontpage to create my html pages. This page and all other lnks are stored on the local server. Thanks for the help.

 

[JackMDS]

If the links goes to an HTML file, the html file can be password protected.

You can point eacj public link to an individual password HTML Files that contains the final link.

HTML file can be individually protected by password and encrypt so it can not be read without the password.

Use to be free programs but I can not find any now.

This is shareware you can give it a try: http://www.mtopsoft.com/index.htm

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[minofifa]

cool thanks for the help

since i cannot protect the actual excel or word documents with passwords directly... maybe i can use the middle html page as a simple redirect....

now that i think of it, maybe i can password protect an excel file... i have excel 97,i have never looked, but it would seem like a good idea.

 

[ShadowBlade]

for the excel files
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/folderlock.html (not free)

 

[oog]

what web server are you using? if you're using IIS, then you can put the files you want to protect within a virtual directory and change the authentication scheme for that directory (from anonymous to something else). if you're using apache, take a look at .htpasswd.

 

[JackMDS]

I would be careful with some of this stuff.

One of the advantages of protecting an HTML file is that you are only affecting the specific flies and nothing else.

Many of the Folder lock, Guard etc. type of programs affect the whole file system of the computer, which is not always a desirable thing, especially on a server.

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