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Or can i do that by configuring the apache server to allow access only to login.php page. All the other pages be redirected to login.php page. I am hosting my site on apache server on linux platform

With HTML pages i can use the C code using CGI-C, for eg, i have a C program and i can display the output of this program on .html page using CGI-C whereas i cannot do so in PHP. Correct me if I am wrong at this. I already have a login.html page where I have saved the login password in an array in a javascript. But this method is not secure, anyone having moderate knowledge can break this password. I dont want to know if the user has logged or not. I just want only the authorized users to have access to my web pages. Can you help me with that?

No, I cannot use php because php does not have any interface with C and Perl language. I will have to stick to html. Any advice on how can i do that? I want when the user types http://locahost/abc.html or http://locahost/xyz.html he should be automatically redirected to the http://locahost/login.php page User can only access http://locahost/xyz.html page when he clicks a link on http://locahost/abc.html and not by directlty typing it in the browser.

Thanks thorpe for ur quick reply. I know its a mark up language. I just wanted to know if my login.php page can direct to index.html on validation of login password. And is there going to be any security issue in this case? I would be using MYSQL database only for my login page. The rest of the web pages are going to be static pages(.html). One more thing I would like to ask, when the user types index.html or any other page in his browser he shld be automaticaly directed to login.php. I want only authorized users to access my web pages. How can i do that? Thanks...

I have a web portal which is scripted using client side scripting language i.e HTML. I want to create a login page in .php and want the other pages to be in .hmtl. Can i do so? I want to do this because i want the login password to be stored in a database. Also I want the password to get encrypted (by either MD5 javascript or OpenSSL ) when user enters it inside the login form. I cannot create the entire portal in php because my portal makes use of C code. And php doesn't have an interface with C language. Can a user get directed to a .html page after a secure login from login.php page ? My main aim is to secure the access to my web portal using a password. I tried to authenticate the login using javascript where the password was stored in an array. But i feel any one having moderate knowledge can easily break that password. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!