Does anyone know the best way to password protect website

[jayjota]

Hello, I am wondering if anyone knows of a different way to password protect a website.
Currently, I used cpanel to password protect the directory that my phpmotion site is at, only problem is that it asks for the password twice, sometimes 3 times, and this website is for internal use only for a few select people. Perhaps there is a better way to set-up a password-protect gateway ? Let me know if you know of any other way. I would really appreciate this. thanks.

[den48248]

Could do it with PHP, where you check the password against a variable, and if it's right you create a session which is checked on each page.

Or you could use htaccess

http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/password/

[oac]

.htaccess is how cpanel does it already I think. Otherwise like den48248 said, PHP/Mysql would work. If you don't want to code it I'm sure there's some free scripts out there which do the job fine.

[reesy]

Yea the cpanel thing, just creates the .htacess for you.
You prob have to sign twice because www.domain.com and domain.com are different. If you give them the right type of url, then you should only have to sign in once.

[sbcjr]

This might interest you...
http://net.tutsplus.com/videos/screencasts/how-to-build-a-login-system-for-a-simple-website/

[jayjota]

Yes, It is the .htaccess, the problem arises when loading index.php as it pulls 2 different pages, the inner_index.htm and main_1.htm , thats why its asking for it twice....

sbcjr> thanks! I am going through this right now....

[bootmaker]

I use cpanel and change names of directories. If that helps you. I don't mind tripple protection

[oac]

Yeah, Vimhost is right. The templates wouldn't cause the problem as they are processed on the server.