Secure Pages

[tomcausland]

Dear All,

I have a question:

When I go online to websites like banks... a lot of the content is not searchable and is viewed under secure webpages with the little padlock at the bottom to let you know that the page is being viewed in a secure environment.

I want to build a site with a login and then have areas for my clients to add stuff to that is sensitive.

I want to be able to tell them that this is so, however, I am not sure if DW can do this.

I have started looking at how to do logins using dynamic applications, there are actually good tutorials on youtube.

However, I wanted to know if any of the experts here have ever done this, or are secure pages done else where, say by the host server.

Secondly, how do I stop this content on the secure pages, from being found in a search engine?

So I know how to do a login but from there on in need updating:-)

Thanks for the time you spend answering this question.

[DwFAQ · Accepted solution]

Look up SSL it is provided by your host.

A page that is restricted to logged in users will not be crawled by search engines.

[tomcausland]

Dear DWFAQ,

I will check this out, I never even knew of SSL.

I appreciate the help.

Thanks,

[jon8]

1. hosting must be setup with an SSL cert, and one purchased that matches your domain to prevent warning messages

2. you can force an https connection using script:

PHP

if($_SERVER['SERVER_PORT'] != '443') {

    //Force SSL upon this page

    header("Location: https://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);

}

OR ASP/.NET

<%    If Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_PORT")=80 Then       Dim strSecureURL       strSecureURL = "https://"       strSecureURL = strSecureURL & Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME")       strSecureURL = strSecureURL & Request.ServerVariables("URL")       Response.Redirect strSecureURL    End If %>

[tomcausland]

Dear Jon,

Thanks, I'm going to look into this.

The code looks a little complicated; however, I'm here to learn so bring it on.

Thanks again:-)