Re: [cobalt-users] A few questions

["Steven Werby" <steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aeron Jarrett <ajarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> <TEARY-EYED>
> Gosh!
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>
> That was kinda harsh... but I guess I was being too vague.

I didn't think you went into enough detail and I thought your method opened up
your site to be written to by the client, which is something I suspected the
poster didn't want.

> I assumed that
> the original poster of the question wanted their client to be able to see
> what the site will look like before the name has actually gone live.

I made the added assumption that the poster wanted to give the client FTP access
to the site.

> If my assumption is correct, then what we do here is to make a directory
> under our company's web directory (not the administration site's web
> directory) for that client. Like we have one now,
> http://www.golinknow.com/swiss_store. From there the client is able to see
> what the site looks like.

But, you're not giving the client FTP or shell access to that directory, are
you?  If you are then how are you preventing them from going up one directory
and deleting your site (accidentally of course)?  I replied to your previous
post b/c that wasn't explained by you and I was worried that the original poster
or any other newbie reading your post might not consider the security risks.

> I didn't think that the poster's desire was to do anything more than
> display the design to the client.

You might be right.  It's hard to say from the original post.  Here's the
relevant text.

> I need to know how to allow my customers that are named based (not me) to view
> there web pages
> before the registration of there domain name filters down.

I think the poster meant (but did not say) that he wanted to know how to give
his name-based customers FTP access and allow them a way to view their files
over the web.  In which case your way doesn't address the FTP access piece or if
it does it doesn't address the security risk piece, unless you trust your
customers that much.  <grin>

Steven Werby {steven-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx}