url cloaking and general website hosting

[neoglade.co.nr]

Hello again,

I’m trying to get my website neoglade.net web cloaking. How ever, the people/site I bought it from does not provide that, they provide redirection, but no cloaking. I’m hosting the site on my computer, using apache and I’m afraid that if I put up to many layers of web cloaking that the site will mess up, is this true, do I need to be worried? I’m new to this so please be as specific as possible.

However, before I can do anything I need to know some good free url cloaking sites, ones that you don’t have to buy anything on and no adds.

I was also wondering if anyone knows how to make staff logins, does it involved, mysql, or what? As always, I’m new to this, please be as specific as possible.


p.s. thanks every one for all there help, I know I've been posting alot lately. Thanks again!

[Twey]

"URL cloaking" is a bit of a misnomer. All they really do is put your site in a frameset. It doesn't really offer any advantage -- in fact, it presents several difficulties to the average user -- and it's certainly not worth making a fuss over.

I was also wondering if anyone knows how to make staff logins, does it involved, mysql, or what?

Yes, you would need to have a reasonably detailed knowledge of a database and a server-side language. There's a simple login script in PHP using sessions I wrote floating around these forums somewhere. It can be adjusted to use a database without too much trouble.

[djr33]

I'm not saying you're going too far (yet), but be careful. Trying to hide/protect things too much just won't get you very far... things on the web are accessible, and that's just how it is, as Twey said "not worth making a fuss over."

Staff logins are nice... Twey's script should do fine, but remember that even the best script is only as strong as the weakest link. Using myself as an example, my forum was hacked a while back... and that was very well designed.
So... just know that you're running somewhat of a security risk in doing these things. But, yes, I totally agree, having staff logins/admin pages are helpful.