PoppyDog Help Center

Password Protector User Guide

• What does it do?
• How do I use it?
• Creating your own login page
• What to do if you don't want to have any links on your website to your protected pages
• Example usage: One page protected by one or more passwords
• Example usage: Multiple pages protected by the same password(s)

What does it do?

The Password Protector enables you to create web pages that require a username and password to be entered before they can be viewed. This means that you can effectively create hidden or secret web pages without having to do any web server programming or configuration.

How do I use it?

Let's start by protecting one page with one username and/or password.

Step 1: Assign a username and password to the protected web page

Lets say that you have created a web page and you only want members of your family to be able to view it. This is how you would achieve this.

1. Make a note of the URL for the web page. For this example we'll pretend that the URL is
   

   http://www.yourdomain.com/myfamilyonly.htm

2. Decide upon a secret username and password. Lets say you choose
   

   username: myfamily
   password: qwerty112

3. Go to 'Password Protector' : 'View/Edit Protected Pages'
   
   
4. Enter the following into the form:
   
   
   
   It is important the you enter the full URL. Below are examples of URL's which are incorrect and will not work:
   

   /myfamilyonly.html   WRONG

   myfamilyonly.html   WRONG

   http://www.acme.com/myfamilyonly.html   CORRECT

   
   
5. Hit the save button
   

You have now assigned a username and password to your hidden family web page. Give the username and password to the people you want to have access to the page.

Step 2: Insert the protective Embed Code into the page

1. Go to 'Password Protector' | 'View/Edit Protected Pages'
2. Grab the protective embed code
3. Insert it into the web page

Creating your own login page

When someone tries to access a protected page, they are asked to logon. We provide code for a login box that you can insert into your web pages. By using this code you can bypass the PoppyDog generated login page and have your own instead.

1. Go to 'Password Protector' | 'Embed Code'
2. Paste the code for the login box into your web page
3. Enter the url of the page containing the login box into the box provided

What to do if you don't want to have any links on your website to your protected pages

1. Insert the embed code for the login box into a web page. This page will act as a kind of an entry page or gateway to the password protected area.
2. When someone needs to gain access to a protected page, you need to show them the login page you've created. When someone enters a username/password into the login box, they will be taken to the corresponding protected page

What to do if you can't insert javascript into your web pages

1. Do not create links to your protected pages.
2. Instead, insert the login box into a web page.
3. When someone needs to gain access to a protected page, you need to show them the login page you've created. When someone enters a username/password into the login box, they will be taken to the relevant protected page
4. Note: as you have not protected pages with the protective code, the pages are displayed in a frameset and poppydog.com appears in the address bar

Example usage: One page protected by one or more passwords

Example usage: Multiple pages protected by the same password(s)