Hi, I am busy developing a site www.bucknellcourt.co.uk as an experiment to learn drupal, so that I can convert a larger site (www.imagineeringweb.co.uk) to drupal once I have confidence I know what I am doing. I've spent a number of hours trying to browse the forum for assistance, but am still confused. This is a hobby for me and I have a reasonable idea of what I'm doing in html, but am stumped with this.
My site is for a residents association/company. I want to have pages available for the general public to view, but to also allow residents to log in and then have access to download documents (pdfs etc of minutes) and perhaps a residents forum.
I have installed SecureSite, set up roles and am now stuck wondering how to secure pages and how to configure the options to do what I want it to. I have read through the help stuff to that is bundled with it.
I don't think I that I should password protect a directory using my CPANEL and place documents in there as this will have just one ID/Password using .htpasswd etc. I've used Account Manager Lite on my other site to manage users and logins which directly modifies the .htaccess and .htpasswd files on the server.
How do you secure pages and place them somewhere safe so that a user has to log in to then see the extended "protected" site.
Any help/guidance much appreciated
Regards
Martin