I am going to have a page on my website full of videos for those people that buy my e-book. Since I only want people that bought the e-book to view the page, I need it to be password protected. Can someone explain how to do this? (green rep will be given) Thanks EDIT: Oops, I just saw looked a couple posts down and saw someone with basically the same question.
You need a membership/profile system. If I were you, I would look to save serious time by just buying a pre-made script to do this, accept payments to give access to files/pages
If - not too many people bought your e-book - you use Apache - you have ssh/telnet access to your server THEN the best way to do it, IMHO, is to use mod_auth: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/auth.html You would just add a new user/password each time somebody buys your e-book, or you just use one username/password (a bit more insecure) and you give it to them Note that this could also be done with a PHP script, but it need a bit of coding experience... HTH, cheers!
check here: http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Scripts/ and here: http://freshmeat.net you may even find something for free!