how to setup this?

blade007 · 27 May 2006 at 18:21

someone wants a site where there are

a) a few pages for general view
b) private pages, which only people with logins can see
c) news pages on both public and private, both updatable by him (the owner)

what's going to do that job?

Beansprout · 27 May 2006 at 18:42

A PHP script to load news from a file (which can be located anywhere, including not in the public_html folder, so *nobody* can access it directly), then a separate directory for the private stuff which you can do with cPanel > Password Protect Directories

(Other control panels will have similar methods but if not, the basic technique used is .htaccess-based directory protection, which Google should help with)

blade007 · 27 May 2006 at 18:55

ah ..

what about being able to update it himself .. the guy ain't html or php or ftp aware ... need something simple ... like some simple cms system so can type his updates by logging into an admin section... any ideas?

blade007 · 27 May 2006 at 20:32

no one? here are two choices then ...

1) mambo, 2) Wordpress

blade007 · 27 May 2006 at 22:08

Beansprout said:
A PHP script to load news from a file (which can be located anywhere, including not in the public_html folder, so *nobody* can access it directly), then a separate directory for the private stuff which you can do with cPanel > Password Protect Directories

(Other control panels will have similar methods but if not, the basic technique used is .htaccess-based directory protection, which Google should help with)

this way sounds the simplest after some investigation

wordpress and mambo far too powerful/unnecessary for this.