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60Yen

Totaly Newbie/n00b questions
« on: February 09, 2005, 05:39:41 PM »
Hi,

I've decided to register to this forum because I have a burning question. I'm a n00b in relation to servers, so forgive my dumbness. I've managed to get the MySQL server do what I want, got a forum installed and my website working. Now, to prevent me from having to fill in information via the MySQL console, I want to sent this via a web form. I made this form but the problem is I really don't know how to script it making it protected from the outside. So I figured out that if I could make the admin folder protected via squid (is that what it is called?, it's the same way the server-manager is protected, or at least that's what I want. Does anyone know how to?

I read something about an RPM file, but I truly don't know how to load it on my server and then run it.

Thanks in advance,

Jan

djhomeless

Totaly Newbie/n00b questions
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2005, 11:20:04 AM »
I'm a bit confused what you are trying to do with this form. Are you trying to capture data from your web users, or from yourself?

If your simply trying to find a protected way to input data into MySQL, try installing PHPMyAdmin. This will let you do pretty much everything you can do from the command line via the web.

Geoffrey

60Yen

Totaly Newbie/n00b questions
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2005, 06:04:08 PM »
Sorry, I guess that was pretty confusing...

I've made a form so that I can insert information into the database. But my knowledge of PHP is not enough to script a protected admin section. So I wondered how I could protect that folder by password (Like with the server-manager).

Greetings,

Jan

djhomeless

Totaly Newbie/n00b questions
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2005, 09:02:18 PM »
Have you tried creating a simple .htaccess file? Simple, but it works.