I have built a website with a hosting company that only offers "very" basic password protection, meaning that you can only protect one page at a time with one password. I want to transform my site into a member's only site, and I need something more advanced than this. Unfortunately, my hosting company is crappy and doesn't use PHP or htaccess, so this means both these options are not workable. I used a JavaScript code last year, but JavaScript can't stop the search engines from sending visitors to pages they shouldn't be on(pages that I want to password protect.). Having said that, is there a way to password protect my pages using some type of software of HTML?
Many hosting company support password protection from control panel itself. I have used IISPassword for windows and on cPanel server, you can password protect folder from control panel ("Password protect directory"). Also, to block search engine to crawl some folders, you can use robots.txt and disallow the directories. Kailash
Just to be sure you understand using this will obly keep the honest bots like Google, MSN, Yahoo and the othe big guys away. Many scapers run their own bot type software and the first thing they do when they find a disallow is search that directory for the goodies. I am not aware of any html based solution.