You create a user-registration form to register
users for a FrontPage web. By default, all FrontPage webs on a Web server have the same
permissions for users as the root FrontPage web. When you create a FrontPage web that will
require users to register before using it, you must open the FrontPage web and specify
that it does not inherit its permissions from the root web but instead has its own set of
permissions.
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permissions for the sub (child) web.
In the FrontPage Explorer, open the FrontPage web for which you are
registering users.
On the Tools menu, select Permissions.
In the Settings tab, select Use Unique Permissions for this Web,
and click Apply.
In the Users tab, select Only Registered Users Have Browse Access,
and click OK.
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| Now, you're ready to create the
User Registration Form in the root web.
Open the root web on the Web server that contains the FrontPage web
that requires user registration. (It is not necessary to save the currently opened web.)
From the root web, open the FrontPage Editor by clicking Show
FrontPage Editor button.
On the FrontPage Editor’s File menu select New.
In the New Page dialog box, select User Registration, and click OK.
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The FrontPage Editor creates a new page containing a user
registration form and explanatory text. You can copy the form to any page in the root
FrontPage web or leave it on the current page and edit the text. The form is labeled
"Form Submission" by default. You can change its label.
The user registration form also supplies a page that confirms the user’s user name.
Right-click anywhere in the user registration form.
From the shortcut menu, select Form Properties.
In the Form Properties dialog box, select Options.
In the Web Name field of the Registration tab of the Settings For
Registration Form Handler dialog box, enter the name of the FrontPage web for which you
are registering users and click OK.
Make sure that the registration form is accessible to users of the
root web. For example, move it to the home page of the root web or create a hyperlink from
the home page to the page containing the registration form.
This means you will want to point the
Registered User Only Web Site hyperlink to the Registration Form Page. See mine password.htm.
In other words, the FrontPage created
User Registration Web Site will not redirect a visitor to the User Registration Form Page.
All the visitor will get when they try to access the Registered User Only site is a
dialog box asking for User Name and Password. |
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| FIRST AND MOST IMPORTANT ... the User Registration Form must be located in the Root Web.
See Creating a New Site for more detail on the Root Web
as FrontPage sees it.
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| The User Registration and Password site is, thus, a sub web of the root web. Special Note: Sometimes FrontPage calls a sub web 'child
web'.
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| Not all Web Site Hosts will allow user registration. It requires that permissions
be set at the server level. Check with yours.
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| As of right now (12/05/00 03:17:22 AM), my host server is not supporting user
registration. We're working on it. |
In the meantime, it does work on my Personal
Web Server and this is the password dialog box that will be displayed on selection of the
User Registration required Web Site.
Steps To Create a Password Only Web Site Are
| Use template [File] [New] to create User Registration Form in Root Web.
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| Create a separate web site that will require registered users only to browse,
usually a sub web of the root web containing the User Registration Form.
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| Create link to Registered User Only site through User Registration Form
(see password.htm in this site).
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| Set permissions for the Registered User Only site or ask Web Host to do for you.
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| User Registration Form does save form fields. Mine are in a text file on
the Root site. |
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