Password Protection

[KBMaster]

My sister and I are building a photo gallery and we want to password protect it. Could someone please tell me how or show me a site that can? Thankies!

[Nate]

Photobucket (http://www.photobucket.com) hosts pictures and is password protected. It's free, and it's what I use.

[Slater]

my guess is... not JS.

[Mithrandir]

How much security do you need? If you don't give out the URL, it's MOSTLY secure. You can create a folder called myimages on any website, and then fill it with graphics that have names like:

hereisalongnameonmyimagethatnoonewillguess_l23j4.gif

Then you can send an email to people you WANT to be able to view it, and give them the direct URLs to the images. You can do this on nearly all online websites.

[KBMaster]

I think we are just going to make it unavailable to a search engine. That way, we can give out the URL to family and friends without anyone else being able to view the gallery unless they know the URL. Thanks for all your help!

[Mithrandir]

BTW: If you want to keep (well behaved) search engines away, use a robots.txt file. It should (mostly) do what you are talking about.

[MyrrhLynn]

Isn't there something you can type in the Head of the HTML page that keeps most search engine spiders/robots out? Here, let me go look in my book...


Ah here it is (this has to go between the beginning head and closing head tags, an of course remove the ! I put in):
<!meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" /!>

[Mithrandir]

Hmm. I'm sure that works for some crawlers, but after a bit more thought, I remembered that many search engines ignore this stuff altogether. It's safer to not post the link if you want to be sure people don't find it.

[glitch1501]

an htaccess file?

[Mithrandir]

If the server allows them, htaccess files would be a good "next step" option.