Create a user registration form to protect and monitor your web site

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Note   Only the UNIX operating system allows registration through a Web browser.

To protect and monitor your web site, you must first create a registration form and then set up how you want to protect and monitor your site.

1. Create a user registration form.

   How?

   1. Open your root web.
   2. On the File menu, point to New, and then click Page or Web.
   3. In the New Page or Web task pane, under New from template, click Page templates.
   4. On the General tab, click User Registration, and then click OK.
   5. Right-click the form (which is toward the bottom of the page), and then click Form Properties on the shortcut menu.
   6. Click Options, and then click the Registration tab.
   7. In the Web name text box, type the name of the protected web site.
   8. Click the File Results tab.

      The file in which the user names of site visitors are saved is shown in the File name box. By default, this file is located in the _private folder of the root web.

   9. In the File format text box, select the format in which you would like to receive the file results.
   10. Click OK, and then click OK again.
   11. Customize the fields on the form as needed.

       For example, change the phrase [Name of your sub web] to the name of your protected web site, customize the instructions on the form, and change the text labels on the fields.

   12. On the File menu, click Save As.
   13. In the File name box, type the file name of the registration page.
   14. If you need to change the Page title, click Change title, enter the correct title, and click OK.
   15. Click Save.

   Note   The registration form must be saved to the root web, not the web site itself. For example, if the protected web site is http://Root/Subweb, the form must be saved in Root.

2. Set how you want to protect your web site.

   How?

   1. Open the web site.
   2. On the Tools menu, point to Server, and then click Permissions.
   3. On the Settings tab, click Use unique permissions for this web, and then click Apply.
   4. Click the Users tab, and then click Only registered users have browse access.
   5. Click Add.
   6. Next, add the users to the web, adding users for browse, author, and administer access separately.

      How?

      1. If you are using a web server that supports a domain hierarchy, in the Obtain list from box, select the domain or group from which you want to select users.
      2. In the Names box, select or type a user name, and then click Add.
      3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 for each user you want to add for a particular type of access.
      4. Specify the type of access to give to the list of users you are adding (browse, author, or administer access), and then click OK.
      5. The same permission is given to all users listed in the Add Names box. To set different permissions, for example to give one user browse access and a different user author access, repeat steps 1 through 4 for each user.

Note   Microsoft Windows 2000 security and Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) do not allow registration through a Web browser.