I need help with .htaccess
 

Hi.

Can anybody show me a good guide to setting up a username/password system to protect my my affiliation area. I've got quite a lot of new FHG's going up soon and dont want generl surfers getting access. I just want signed up affiliates to get access.

Leroy

If you are doing any members area protection, then I suggest strongbox's password protection system. The best when it comes to brute force attacks, it's fast and easy to use, and it's cheap.

Using just a standard htauth / htaccess file, can be troublesome and is very easy to brute force attack, almost impossible to keep up with duplicate users, and overall can just be a pain.

I don't think people will brute force an affiliate area.
They could just signup (4free)

Yes. It's just for affiliates to view/download promo material

Leroy

I just thought he typed it wrong.. If he has a way to track affiliates, he must have a way for them to login, so he already has a way to protect the files.

are you new ?

he most likely uses ccbill (like a lot of programs)
and they dont have any password protection for affiliates
they just list the promo tools on their webmaster page

http://webdesign.about.com/od/htacce...Protection.htm
http://webdesign.about.com/od/htacce...hthtaccess.htm
http://webdesign.about.com/od/security/a/aa020801c.htm
http://www.clockwatchers.com/htaccess_tool.html

You haven't ever logged into ccbill and seen the promo tools? Are you new?

Nearly all CCBill affiliate programs have a website where you access content outside of the CCBill interface to make it easier.

leroy: I don't have any good scripts for you but I would recommend that once you have the username/password setup, you automatically insert that into your CCBill welcome email. I really hate having to contact a CCBill program personally to get a login to their content area.

lol, I dare you to show me 5 programs that keep their promo tools in ccbill
only.
I know you're not new, but you must be damn ignorant.

This is how a lot of programs do it. Just setup a generic username/password
to your content and have it in your welcome email template.

How many ccbill affiliate programs have you logged into? The last two the hired me to do their nats convets, had the content/banners, ect loaded into nats.

My first client was a ccbill to nats client, they had it loaded into the admin too.




Where do you people come from?

Outside of my clients, and before them.. I can't name 1 ccbill program client anyway.

So two clients, brutalbucks and boobsville - both had content in the ccbill admin.

heh, there are hundreds of ccbill programs, you've seen two of them
and start making generalizations ? :)

My point was that many, many CCBill programs have their promo materials in an unprotected area on their own website instead of loading all the stuff into CCBill. He wants to protect it since having the promo tools only in CCBill is really annoying.

www.dutchteencash.com
www.solarcash.com
www.nubiles.net/webmasters

Instead of unprotected like www.spunkycash.com and 100s (if not 1000s) of CCBill sponsors have it.

I have seen 1000's, I have used none, and I have migrated about 10.

Viki, I don't have a lack of understanding with this, I'm very up on what people are doing and not doing with this. I would use the ccbill admin, because I don't like to build tools that are already built.

http://www.amember.com/

nice script ...