How Do I Use Website Access Manager With Visual Site Designer?
Website Access Manager allows or denies access on a folder-by-folder and file-by-file basis, but Visual Site Designer creates only one folder (called files) that contains all your Website files. This folder is uploaded as a subfolder of your server root. If your Website only has two folders, that means there are only two folders to protect — and that's a problem, since those two folders contain your entire Website. Luckily, there are a couple of workarounds available.
Option 1
One option is to create and save an entirely new Visual Site Designer project that contains all the content you want to password protect, and then store it in a separate folder on your server. Alternately, if you've already designed the password-protected content on your Website, you can simply copy and paste your page elements to a new Website.
Once you're done creating or transferring your password-protected content to a new Website, the next step is to tweak your FTP settings in Visual Site Designer. Because you’ll be uploading this Website to a different folder, you’ll have to change the WWW folder. To access your FTP settings, navigate to Settings > FTP Settings.
Next, append whatever has been entered in the WWW Folder field with /foldername, with foldername being the name of the folder you wish to protect (e.g. members, private, etc.). This will create a folder on your server where your password-protected files will be stored. For instance, if you upload your regular Website files to public_html, you should upload your password-protected files to public_html/private.
After you’ve finished entering this information, click OK and upload your files. You can now open Website Access Manager and apply password protection to this portion of your Website.
Option 2
There’s another option available for those who wish to apply password protection to folders or files in their Website. To do this, navigate to Settings > Add Files in Visual Site Designer. You can then create a folder on your server and transfer files from your computer to that folder. For instance, you could create a folder called images or music and then transfer MP3s from your computer to that folder.
After you’ve uploaded these changes to your server, you can then password-protect this folder using Website Access Manager.
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