First time post. Did a little searching but couldn't find anything related to what I need to know. I am a interface analyst stepping into new grounds with web design and management and have a question about how to control access to pages. I am very new to design and know next to nothing about management or design. I have created a basic site that I can host plans for projects. I want to be able to send a customer a link such as: www.project.com/plan18 They could then pull the file they need from that site. My problem is that I don't want them to be able to access the main site, www.project.com, by deleting the /plan18 portion. Is this something possible using HTML or is there some other way to secure the parent page? Please excuse my ignorance! I'm trying to learn this as I go but don't know what or where to start with this problem. Any help or suggestions for a direction to take would be greatly appreciated!
I'd need more information - are you trying to block EVERYONE from seeing the root page? whats on the root page?
Root page would be a listing of all jobs that all subs could be bidding on for construction jobs. We want to be able to assign a page that has just the job they are bidding on. Right now they can see all of the jobs. We can email them the link to just their job but I'm sure someone will be smart enough to pull the job title off of the URL and get back to the home page with all listings. I want to be able to keep that from happening so they only see the jobs they are bidding on. When a sub-contractor is asked to bid on a job we want to send them H T T P: //business.com/projects/redarrow and only have them see the redarrow project plans. If they then pull the redarrow off of the URL they will be able to get back to the main listing with all projects and will be able to browse those at will. Does this help?
Yeah that makes sense. I don't think you can really do this without logins/passwords. you could easily create pages that show jobs they've bidded on based on who they're logged in as... much like how facebook shows users their own posts only.