Course Web Site Development:
Advanced FrontPage Components:
Secure Websites

FrontPage 2000 gives you the ability to define specific regions of your website as "secure", thus allowing you the ability to determine which set of users has access to a certain set of resources.  This feature is invaluable when it comes to protecting sensitive information that you would normally not allow others to see.

To set up a secure portion of your website, follow these steps.

To initialize a secure region

  1. Create a new folder in your website.  This folder will serve to hold all of your secure documents.  To create a new folder, click on the File menu and choose New -> Folder.  Give this folder a meaningful name.
  2. Right click on the new folder and choose Convert to Web.  Answer Yes to the resulting question.
  3. Double click on the folder.  This will open up a new copy of FrontPage and allow you to interact with the folder as if it was its own separate website.

 

To set permissions within a secure region

  1. Click on the Tools menu.  Choose Security -> Permissions.  The following window will appear.



  2. If you wish to create a secure website that requires a password, follow steps 3 & 4.  If you wish to create a website that only allows certain computers to access it (i.e. if you wish to limit access to TCNJ campus computer only), follow steps 5 - 7.
  3. Click on the button labeled Only registered users have browse access.  Now click the Add button.  The following window will appear.



  4. Create a username that will be used to access this account.  Then type in a password that will be used.  Click the OK button when you're done.  Finally, click the other OK button, and your website is set!
  5. Click the tab labeled Computers.  The following window will appear.



  6. Click the Remove button.  Then click the Add button.  The following window will appear.



  7. If you wish to limit browsing to only TCNJ campus machines, set the IP mask value to read "159 91 * *".  Click the OK button.  Click the other OK button.  That's it!  Your website has been configured to only accept on campus browsers!