Restricting further access to website

[Guest freespirit111063]

Good morning,

 

I just want to say that being a newbie, I did spend some considerable time going through the Forum to see if my question had already been asked and answered. :/

 

All I succeeded in doing was to make myself feel totally inadequate!

 

I have been trying to solve this problem on my own for some time but simply cannot find the answer so I thought I would ask the experts.

 

I wish to stop access to the rest of my site until payment has been made. How do I do this?

 

You have no idea how grateful I would be if you could help!!! Please remember I never tried to build a site before and have no real knowledge of programming or writing script.

 

Any help would be very gratefully received!!! :D

[Wickham]

What do you mean by "the rest of your site"? I assume you mean that some pages on your domain can be viewed, but not others.

 

You can create a separate directory and move all the secret files into it and set a password. You can do this by code in a .htaccess file or most hosting services have a menu that does this coding for you. CPanel does have a menu like that where you select the directory to be password-protected and set the password.

 

A simpler way is to rename the directory with all the files to be secret and hope that no one comes across it by accident. So if you had a directory with a new website and it is named website-for-Joe, just rename it temporarily website-for-Joe-temp. Google is unlikely to list it in a search if it's only you who looks at the pages as there won't be enough views to rate it enough to appear in the listings.

Edited May 29, 2009 by Wickham