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CraigCC
CraigCC
Inspiring
June 20, 2006
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Securing Captivate Movies and Providing Access via the Web

  • June 20, 2006
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Hi All,

Apologies if this is a little off topic, but I just thought that someone out there has bumped into this problem and come up with a solution. Any advice / pointers gratefully received thanks!

I'd like to create a bunch of captivate movies which will be accessed over the web. Different clients/customers need to access different movies. What I'd really like to be able to do is post these movies on my site OR a site offering secure hosting.

The client would be given a URL - when they accessed the URL they would go to a login page (and provide a password) and then be presented with a startup page / menu where they can access the movies that relate to the software that they are using (the clients all use different versions of the software so the movies are subtly different for each).

Any one come across this type of hosting solution or has any ideas for this scenario?

Many thanks
Craig
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    Correct answer Paul_D
    Craig,
    I think you have the wrong end of the stick regarding htaccess
    I have done a quick example for you here protected folder
    username and password = larry

    a very good host is http://ukwebsolutionsdirect.co.uk/hosting.php
    I use them for all my domains/site and they are cheap

    Paul

    5 replies

    CraigCC
    CraigCCAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 22, 2006
    Just to close this thread and thank Larry and Paul for their valuable help and assistance. Cheers Craig
    CraigCC
    CraigCCAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 21, 2006
    Looks like I've found my dream
    http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/hosting/windows-developer/full-details/
    ....as always dreams are expensive so I will be looking at the alternatives you offered first!

    Thanks again and have a fun day
    Craig
    Paul_D
    Paul_DCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    June 21, 2006
    Craig,
    I think you have the wrong end of the stick regarding htaccess
    I have done a quick example for you here protected folder
    username and password = larry

    a very good host is http://ukwebsolutionsdirect.co.uk/hosting.php
    I use them for all my domains/site and they are cheap

    Paul
    CraigCC
    CraigCCAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 21, 2006
    Yes, I did get the wrong end of the stick, you can hit me with that end of you like :-)
    Thanks for the link, see how it works in practice now. I googled htpasswd rather than htaccess and got a little confused. doh.
    Just took a look at http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml and a bit clearer now.

    So lets say that I hosted these mini sites in subfloders (using http://ukwebsolutionsdirect.co.uk/hosting.php), I could then use the htaccess code to separately password protect each segement / mini site? If so, that is way cool and just what I'm after me thinks. The html pages and movie (.swf) files would also be protected as they are part of the protected folder?

    thanks Paul
    Craig
    CraigCC
    CraigCCAuthor
    Inspiring
    June 21, 2006
    Hi Larry and Paul,

    As always many thanks for your ideas and insight. You've both made me think about what I'm trying to achieve here.

    What I'm really trying to create is specific areas reserved for different clients - as if they are accessing their own site / space and the more that I think about it th more it makes sense to create a separate mini website for each client that stores their captivate movies and other other content..

    Larry, http://www.mtopsoft.com/htmllock/index.htm mtopsoft looks like it may fit the bill, thanks for the tip! I'll download it right away and run some test. I've got a large chunk of webspace that I can use for various clients and then password protect their particular areas. Hopefully, mtopsoft will allow me to restrict access to whole directories and subdirectories.

    Paul, I looked at .htpasswd which seem to only allow specific IP address access, I think that a password and username may be a better bet - but you got me hunting around google similar solutions.

    My dream would be to find a hosting company that does all this for me, giving me very secure space / segments that can only be accessed via unique usersnames and passwords.

    Lots for me to think about, so many thanks
    Craig
    Paul_D
    Paul_D
    Inspiring
    June 20, 2006
    Craig,

    If your host supports it and you want to be a bit more secure use .htpasswd
    plenty of info about it hanging around, If you need a hand mail me

    Paul

    Nice to see the "Cat" prowling again :)
    CatBandit
    CatBandit
    Inspiring
    June 20, 2006
    Hi Craig!
    I may be misinterpreting what you want, but will give it a shot - then you tell me where I fell off the train. Can you use Captivate's own "password" protection in the movies? That would be my first choice, I think, as it is so simple and straight-forward.

    If that won't work, have you ever used one of the HTML password generators? I think I have one around here somewhere from a company called something like "mtopsoft". As I remember, it is Java-script based - haven't used it for several years, but I was quite impressed when I bought it ... will password protect a single HTML document, or an entire folder, as you wish. Will also support individual passwords, or just a single common one for all ... try Googling 'HTML password"

    Hope this helps, Craig.
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