We have a network of sites that we set up like that and the software is available. All new updates
and everything show on on the tour area, which provides Google with a lot of pages to
spider. You can see the thumbs pages, but when you click to see the full video or full
sized image you have to be logged in.
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[email protected] or call 979-530-1300.
Be careful if you do this with a home grown system, or using any system designed by someone
not certified in security. It's tricky to design correctly where it runs both the public area and the
protected area from one system like that, where the tour displays all of the latest updates and
everything from within the members' area. Most of the time when people do that it's actually very
easy for the bad guys to grab all of your content without logging in. The most common "solution"
to that problem, running all of the pics and videos through a PHP script, actually creates a huge
new problem - the bad guys can use the video download script to instead download your password
file and other sensitive files.
The basic approach we used is that just as site.com and
www.site.com and two names
for the same site, members.site.com is also another alias for the same site. If you use the
name members.site.com, you have to log in, and you have access to everything. If you are
on
www.site.com, you have no access to full sized images or videos. Using the two names
provides the clean separation required for appropriate security.