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rfimbel
Hello Fellow Bloggers. I am a tech sales rep and use a blog as a place to post information for all my customers.

I want webpages within my website that are specific to each of my cusomers. These pages need to be private because my customer compete with each other.

I would like the entry point to be a link from the home page that pops up a window asking for a user name and password. I think that part is probably fairly straight forward (just a simple form). The tricky part is this; I need the user to be directed to a page that is specific to the account he is with (ie: if the users name is joe and he works at account A he is sent to the web page for account A, if he works for account B he is linked to account B, etc).

I hope this make sense.

Any suggestions? There are probably already scripts out there to do something like this. Just point me in the right direction. huh.gif
kadyellebee
When you add a user to your MT system, you can specify which blog they have access to. They wouldn't see any other customers blogs inside of MT. When the user clicked "View Site" it would take them directly to their site URL/subdirectory.

And then, you could use htaccess to password protect the directories for each person. Many hosting accounts have tools for managing password-protected directories on their control panels.

This means that when you add a customer, you'd need to add them to the MT users and to your htaccess list, but that's probably the most straight forward alternative.

Kristine
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