Disallowing access to all pages within a site.

How would I be able to disallow access to all the pages within my site, unless a cookie is present? Without modifying all the files in order to check if the cookie is active.


At a loss on how to go about this.

 

If you have header/constant/functions or some other file included in every page/files then you can write a piece of code to check for cookie

<?php
if (isset($_COOKIE["cookie_name"]))
  echo "Welcome to our site";
else
  echo "go away";
?>

PHP:

 

Yeah, I don't have that but I figured out how to do it via .htaccess.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*cookie-name.*$
RewriteRule .* /redirectionpage.html [NC,L]

Code (markup):

For anyone that needs it.

 

This isn't a very secure way of restricting access. A cookie can be easily forged which would give someone access to this area when they shouldn't. If there is anything sensitive in the area you're protecting, I would opt for another method.

 

It's nothing sensitive, it's just mainly them having to click continue on the splash page before being able to access any other pages.

 

I see. Should work well then.