I'm rather new to IIS and website development, with only simple HTML knowledge. I have set up IIS on my Windows XP Pro machine, for the purpose of hosting my own private website for me and a couple of friends. I have two questions as follows:
1] What I have now is a simple page, and a virtual directory which is viewed as a file list for downloadable files. What I would like is for the web site to be password protected. That is, when a user attempts to view the site, I would like it to request and verify a password before allowing site access. I DO NOT want it to require a user name and password, only a password. How can this be accomplished? I've heared the term SSL, but I've no idea what that means, or how to set it up.
2] I have set up a virtual directory with 'write' permissions, but when viewing that directory over the internet, and attempting to drag-n-drop files to it, it does not upload the files, but does different things depending on the machine I'm using to view my website. How can I make a simple "upload" page for people to send me files via HTTP, without using an FTP server?
- Thanks in advance.
1] What I have now is a simple page, and a virtual directory which is viewed as a file list for downloadable files. What I would like is for the web site to be password protected. That is, when a user attempts to view the site, I would like it to request and verify a password before allowing site access. I DO NOT want it to require a user name and password, only a password. How can this be accomplished? I've heared the term SSL, but I've no idea what that means, or how to set it up.
2] I have set up a virtual directory with 'write' permissions, but when viewing that directory over the internet, and attempting to drag-n-drop files to it, it does not upload the files, but does different things depending on the machine I'm using to view my website. How can I make a simple "upload" page for people to send me files via HTTP, without using an FTP server?
- Thanks in advance.
