Password Protecting your Webpage Using FrontPage 2002 on Unix Web Servers with Full FrontPage 2002 Extensions

Introduction
Create a New Subweb and Configure Unique Permissions
Managing a Subweb

Introduction

A restricted-access web is a website that only specific users are allowed to view. FrontPage does not support the restricting of pages, sections, or folders within a web.

To set up a restricted-access web in FrontPage, you must create a subweb and configure unique permissions for the subweb.

A subweb is a web nested inside another web. By default, all subwebs inherit the same permission settings as their parent webs. However, you can establish unique permissions for subwebs. Each subweb can have its own set of permissions that specify who can browse, author, or administer it, and you can set up individual subwebs with different levels of permissions and different groups of users.

The following are instructions on how to create a subweb and set unique permissions in Microsoft FrontPage 2002 on ISU Unix web servers (www, isu, sapphire). Login to your web account using FrontPage (Instructions to login).

Create a New Subweb and Configure Unique Permissions

Creating a subweb involves the following steps:

1. In the "Tools" menu, go to "Server" and click on "Administration Home".

2. Clicking on the Administration Home will open up a browser and a dialog box asking for the username and password for your account as shown below. Type in the username and password, and click on OK.

 

3. Following the 2nd step will open up the Website Administration Page for your account. Scroll down to go to the "Subwebs" section on the Administration Page. You will see a screen as shown below:

 

4. To create a new subweb click on the "Create a subweb" hyperlink under the Subwebs section. You will see two sections to be filled out to create a subweb.

• Create a New Subweb
  To create a new subweb specify a name in the textbox under 'Name'.
   
• Permissions
  Your new subweb can either use the same permissions as the parent web, or use unique permissions.
  
  If you select Use same permissions as parent web, you are not required to supply a username and password, the subweb uses the same username and password as your main web.
  
  If you select Use unique permissions for this web, you must also specify an administrator user name and password for the new subweb.

 

Managing a Subweb

1. After following the above steps if you scroll down to the 'Subweb' section, the new subweb that was just created should be listed under the section that lists 'Subweb name' and 'URL'. To manage the subweb settings for a particular subweb click on the subweb name to view the Administration Page.

 

2. A dialog box will open up asking for the username and password after you click on the subweb name.
If you had the same permissions as the parent web for this subweb, type in the same username and password as your web account.

If you had unique permissions set up for this subweb, type in the administrator username and password for the subweb. Below is a screenshot of the dialog box that opens up.

 

3. To add more users to the subweb, and to assign roles to users, go to the 'Users and Roles' section of the Administration Page for the subweb. To add a new user, click on 'Manage users'.

4. Clicking on 'Manage users' takes you to a page where you can add a user/delete selected user(s).

5. To add a user, click on the "Add a user" link. You will see two sections to be filled out to create a new user.

• User
  Add a new user account. Under this section enter a username, password, and confirm the password for the new user.

• User Role
  Choose a role or roles for this user from the existing options of being an Administrator, Advanced author, Author, and Browser.
  (If you want the users to view the pages but not make any changes to the webpages, select the "Browser" option.)

After filling out the above information, click on 'Add User' button. A screenshot for 'Add a user' is shown below:

6. Use this subweb to put any files that need to be secured.

(Remember, these userids and passwords are for your use in restricting access to your webpages and have nothing to do with logging in or accessing the server in general.)

For any further assistance, e-mail web@isugw.indstate.edu.