Use vB or vbDrupal to secure files/folders

[bill]

I'm setting up a secure site where only authorized members can access content. This is fine for vB and vbDrupal generated content. However there are some other areas of my site which are generated by 3rd party programs. I'm wondering if there are ways that I could use the security built into either of these programs to keep this extra content secured as well.

For example, I have a weblog analysis program that scans my server's log files nightly and produces a few pages of HTML as a report. Would it be possible to locate these files outside my web and still have them linkable thru vbDrupal or vB? Maybe setting the File system settings in Drupal to Private and then linking to them?

[bill]

Anybody have an idea?

[sifuhall]

In vb you could create a link to them in the navbar that is only available to members of your admin group, or even just your userid, but this would not prevent people that knew the URL from access the data.

If you are running apache you can prevent people from accessing the URL by adding password protection to that directory.

[bill]

This site is running on IIS and I was trying to avoid using the Windows user management and instead rely solely on the vB system to control content access. I may have to re-think that then. This is not for a very sophisticated audience so I might be able to get away with an i-frame to display those reports, but I wouldn't want this data accessible on the general web without a login of some sort.