securing my web pages

[mkarmali]

Please:

What technology or programming techniques do I use to secure pages on my website. Most of my web "pages" are Perl scripts. I have created a login page where users have to register and then log in via user name and password. But my directory structure is open to all - any one can guess my folder names and bypass my log in page. It seems that I have to let my permissions to my cgi-bin folder and my Perl pages to be 0755.

Thank you,
MohamedAli Karmali

[charlesp]

I don't know Perl but with php you can require a cookie be present to access any page weather they by pass the login or not. But you have to make that requirement on each page. Then just use a 'header redirect' to redirect them back to the index.php page. There's probably something similar with Perl.

[mkarmali]

Thanks for replying.