Exercise 2: Requiring users to log in to the Compass Travel application

To ensure that only employees of Compass Travel can access the application you have built, you use the Login Wizard to provide user authentication. You specify only one username and password that all employees of Compass Travel will use to gain access to the application.

Note: To perform the steps in this exercise, you must be running Windows. In addition, the site that contains the Compass Travel application must be a site managed by Dreamweaver.

To add user authentication to the Compass Travel application:

  1. Start Dreamweaver.
  2. Verify that the Compass Travel site is the current site.
  3. In Dreamweaver, select Commands > CF Login Wizard.
  4. Click Begin the Wizard.
  5. Select the Secure Your Active Site option.
  6. Click Next.
  7. Select Simple as the type of authentication.
  8. Select Basic Authentication.
  9. Enter CompassStaff as the user name.
  10. Enter Columbus92 as the password.

    The Login Wizard creates the files necessary to restrict access to your application. The Wizard then displays a list of the files.

  11. Click Done.

To test the authentication:

  1. Open the tripdetail.cfm page in the my_app directory in your browser.
  2. When prompted, enter CompassStaff as the user name.
  3. Enter Columbus92 as the password.

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