Re: Becoming Crazy: Web, FTP, PHP

Ok I used a combination of your suggestions to solve my problem: 1. I'm using HTP to send files instead of FTP (Thanks John Coggeshall it works perfectly). 2. I'm managing my users and pass with a PHP/MySQL system (Thanks Justine French) and I created only one user for the HTP service. Then, when any user access to the Web server, you see a login page stored in a public directory in the Web server where you can put your user name and password. If the user name and password exists in the MySQL database I want that the user will be login like the only HTP user that exists, and have this way access to the whole content stored in a private directory protected by the directives in the file /etc/httpd/conf/acces.conf. I don't know how to do this! At the moment I'm doing the following: If the user exists in the MySQL database I call the first page of the site (under a private directory) with this: <form="xxx" action="/private/welcome.htm"... but the problem is that in the user's browser appears the login screen of the system! How can I avoid this? I don't know how to send the user name and password that the user entered in my login page, to the HTP service. Ahead of time, thank you, Tom. "TomáS Liendo" <tomasjliendo@hotmail.com> escribió en el mensaje news:20030406200605.59651.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Hi people, please I need help with this: > > I'm developing a Web Page for my University in the one wich we all (teachers > and students) will be able to make contributions from our houses or any > other place. > We will be able to send texts, files, etc. The texts will be stored in a > MySQL data base and the pahs of the files also. > To send Files I will use a FTP server under Red Hat Linux 7.2 I need too a > Web server, I will use Apache. A srcipt PHP will reed the information in the > data base and will draw the page. > > My problem is the following: > > -To send files via FTP, the users have to have a user name and a password in > the system. > - To see the contents of the page the users will need OTHER user name and > password because the user names and passwords of the Web service are not the > same ones that the user names and passwords of the system. > - I need personal information about the users like e-mail, curriculum, etc. > in the MySQL data base. > > Then in conclusion I will have to give of high the users and their > passwords THREE TIMES: For FTP Service, for Web service and in my data base. > > I'm sure that exists some form better to do this, I would thank you a lot > your town councils, > > Tom. > > > > >