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[jamoor]

I am after some kind of web software that will enable me to write about stuff and publish online, kind of like a blog site, thing is there must be a username and password to access it
people will be able to register to see it,

any ideas?

 

[Beansprout]

You can use .htaccess protection if you want a quick way of needing a user/pass for *all* content on the site / in a folder / etc.

Wordpress should sort you out for the blog software - it might even have a password option in it, I don't know

 

[Nim]

If you want unauthorised users to see absolutely nothing, then htaccess is probably the best way to go. It's simple to set up, and will work reliably.

If you want unauthorised users to see the 'bones' of the site, but just none of the content (i.e. it has a password box instead of the articles, but they can see that there are articles there), then yeah, use Wordpress. You can definitely set passwords on a per-article basis, but I'd be very surprised if there wasn't a way to just protect everything at once.