I am new to web development so this question might be basic. I was asked to create a photography site in node.js for a friend. I want to create a way for only her to login to the site and fill out forms and update content. Should I put the login link on the main page like other web apps or create a secret route that she can go to and login?
sorry for the newbie question.
I have googled extensively on this subject and even took an online web-developer course. I cant seem to find the answer anywhere.
Google Firebase has some pretty good authentication stuff for applying access controls. It really depends what kind of security you need.
Consider this. Some other user gets a hold of the route that you've provided. Your client's site could be completely sabotaged.
My suggestions is to check out Google Firebase Authentication it will be worth while to know that suite if you are doing independent contracting work.
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So, I'm building a website and using Freenom's domains to save some money on a domain (as Google's is just too lengthy, and I don't have much of a budget). However, when I was going to make the sub-domain for that website (ex; subdomain.example.com), I couldn't figure out how. I use Freenom and Google Sites, I've seen people do it before with the same setup as me, but I just have no clue.
So this is going to be a kinda complicated, frustrating question.
SO I recently started working for a company doing a lil marketing/social media. One of the things they wanted me to update was their website (refresh the look and layout and update the design) I've never built a website (i mean I have a Wix portfolio but..) and have had little HTML experience, but I've taken a bunch of c++, python and other coding classes and also really like figuring out new things. Their IT guy now works for another side of the company and is very weird about relinquishing the passwords for the various social media sites and whatnot. When I finally got the admin passwords for the website I realized that that only lets you change the words on the website or add new info. There is no layout/coding capabilities at all. He also gave me the FTP access and the username and password for that. He was very weird about me changing things (even though the CEO asked me to) and won't give a straight, comprehensible answer about the capabilities we have with this website! The original person who created the website is no longer here and they can't seem to find his contact info.
So my main question is, how do I use the FTP info? Do I simply just download an FTP client and login there???? Will it even be possible for me to access this websites infrastructure? I just kind of need a starting point on what I should be researching/trying to do.
Sorry this was so long and feel free to ask questions because I bet I was a little confusing.
PS. I don't even know what host it was built with like Wordpress or ya kno
Do you know where the website is hosted? Ask him for the hosting provider login. Once you have that, you will be able to see what sort of installation you have there, and to obtain the credentials you'll need to FTP in via Filezilla or a similar tool. If he doesn't give you the info, take it to your boss and have them apply pressure from above.
He might have added you as an author or a user that's not an admin. Make sure your an admin.
The FTP can be accessed from the hosing service, but you mentioned that he didn't give you the details. So download Filezilla to access FTP.
Hope this helps.
The question is pretty clear I think, but I will elaborate on why I'm asking it.
I created a little blog engine based on OneNote. Basically, the blog configuration asks for an access to OneNote. Then the user chooses a section under which the blog posts are stored.
There is a cron script that will use all these informations to automatically get new pages, fetch the medias and cache every, and finally display the posts.
I chose OneNote because I own three Windows 8 computers and a Windows Phone, so OneNote was an easy choice, as I didn't want to get an other application to manage my blog.
There is still a lot to do (as always with softwares...), but I want to make this more or less an open source project, so that other people can install it on their websites and link it directely to OneNote.
The only "big" obstacle for this now is that authentication in the OneNote API needs to register the application on the Live Connect, and specify a redirect domain. So every user wishing to use this blog engine on their server will have to register their own application... That will look complicated just for a blog, especially if you're not tech-savvy.
Is there a way to "skip" or work around this requirement, even if it requires the user to make the section public (as it is for a blog, this doesn't seem too much to ask) ?
Thank you in advance,
Cheers
Sounds like an awesome project! When you get it released be sure to let us know at #OneNoteDev.
Unfortunately, at this time there's no way to circumvent the requirement for Live Connect OAuth configuration. You could offer a hosted variant so only you need to worry about the LiveID configuration.
Can you view someones twitter page that isnt my own as a json api?
From what I've seen you need a authentication key, anyone know a way that works?
You can view the contents of another user's profile, and you can retrieve a list of their tweets. However, it is necessary for your application to authenticate with Twitter via OAuth; third-party applications cannot authenticate with a user's username and password.
You'll want to start here. It may seem complicated, but don't be discouraged. Your best bet will be to find an existing Twitter library that handles authentication for you. This problem has been solved for many languages and development platforms. Don't re-do what other people have already done. :)
How can I update a web page remotely? Is there a web service or can I do it via email, I have no direct access to the server.
We simply need to add an alert facility in an emergency. For example simple text message across the top of the home page saying "We are shut today due to bad weather".
Thanks
I can't tell that I catch what you mean, but I will answer in general manner
1- if you are building the whole site from scratch: You can create your site by any CMS like dotNetNuke or joomla which will allow you to login and edit what you want
2- if you are building just this page from scratch : You can build your page with online-editing in mind, in this case I recommend to build two pages one for for viewing content and the other for online-editing you can use any HTML-Editor control like FCKEditor
3- if you are dealing with already built page : it will be easier to build administration page which you can upload the new version of the content page to it, and the administration page take care of replacing the content page
hope this can help you, if not, please feel free to clear your needs so we can help more
Contact the host server company you have your DNS/Host service/name resolution with and ask them to redirect the DNS calls to another server of your choice with the notice you wish to have people see when they try to access your page.
On a general basis, yes it's possible, that's what most blog engines and CMS are for. It's also fairly easy to develop an ad-hoc program if all you need is to be able to put an offline page.
If what you mean however is you need to do today witout any access to the server, contacting the person hosting your site or your DNS are indeed your best chances.
I'd suggest getting someone to put a twitter widget on the page, then you can sms/email or use a web browser to send your updates and they will automatically appear on the site.
Is it at all possible for you get someone to do that for you? Twittercard can be used to generate the code to drop in.
It looks like this thread is a bit dated, but for anyone still looking for a way to update your site using email, you might want to check out https://www.sitemailcms.com/. It's a service I've developed to do just that.