indoglobal.com provides an easy way to restrict access to part of your web site. You can manage your web users and groups information. You can also modify access control information for part of your web site. All can be done conveniently without leaving SiteManager.
Our SiteManager has a database for storing username and password information. You can use this database for authenticating access to part of your web site. You can manage this database by using from inside SiteManager
There are several operation that can be done from this menu.
Creating new user. Click on menu and fill the information of the new user on the next screen. The most important part is User ID and password, they are used by your users to authenticate themselves. You can also fill the group membership if you want this user to be a member of a group. A user can be a member of more than one group.
Creating new group. Click on and fill the group information on the next screen. The important field here is Group ID.
Deleting a user or group. You can delete a user or group by using link on the right side of user or group ID you want to delete.
Editing a user or group. You can edit a user or group by using link on the right side of user or group ID you want to edit. Please note that you will not be able to change the user or group ID.
There are several place where the above user & group database can be useful inside SiteManager.
Restricting access to part of your web site.. You can restrict access to part of your web site by using menu under file manager. Please see the section called “Using SiteManager's File Manager” for more information.
Restricting access for WebDAV users. You can restrict access for your WebDAV users by using menu under filemanager. Please see the section called “Using WebDAV to Manage Files” for more information about WebDAV.
Restricting access to your log files analysis result. You can do that by using under Log Files & Analysis menu. Please see the section called “Access Control Configuration” for information.
Under each of those menus, you can configure who has access to a particular resource. On the configuration page you will see several fields.
Authentication String. This is the string sent to web browser as an identifier. You can leave this to default if you wish.
User Allowed to Access. Specify which class of users you want to allow access to this resource. You can allow any visitors, allow any authenticated user, allow users belong to specific group(s), or only allow specific user(s). To allow specific users or groups, you also need to specify in the selection box which users or groups will be allowed.
Host Allowed to Access. You can specify which host to allow or deny access here. You can allow all hosts except the listed hosts, or you can deny all hosts except the listed hosts.
Access Allowance. This field configures how user and host based authentication above interacts. You can choose if access granted whenever both user authentication and host authentication are successful. You can also choose to grant access if any of user authentication and host authentication is successful. Leave it to default if you don't understand.