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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Lightroom Q&A => Topic started by: AFairley on July 03, 2015, 12:55:39 pm
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I don't see an option to require a password to access an uploaded Lightroom web gallery. Is there one in Lightroom? If not, any idea of how to implement externally?
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It could be that your web host's admin panel allows you to password protect the folder into which you upload the galleries. This will be the easiest way.
Otherwise, I assume you have FTP access to your server? If so, you need to look into something called htaccess. Basically, you upload a small text file into the folder which requires a user name and password, and upload a second file into another folder, often in the cgi-bin folder. The text files are quite simple but unpleasantly geeky for some.
But look into the first option before going too far into htaccess.
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The Turning Gate has a variety of plug-ins for web build using Lightroom which include password protection. I've built my image galleries using the plug-in CE2 and the main site with Wordpress. Here's an example I made up for you using one of my galleries. You can still access my main site from the gallery without the user name and password.
http://www.johnwoodphotowork.com/dir/phtwk_gallery/150609-burntisland-01/ (http://www.johnwoodphotowork.com/dir/phtwk_gallery/150609-burntisland-01/)
User name: burnt
password: island
The link to The Turning Gate is: http://theturninggate.net (http://theturninggate.net)
Hope this may be of help.
John
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John, thanks, I can set up password protection at the hosting end, which I likely will do (it's free). And other John, thanks for the link to the plugin, which I will explore.