how do I add a secure website to my existing website

hi,

I have a website that's available for everyone. I wanted to create a portal that's available to specific users to manipulate the data in the database and print forms and what have you.

What should I be looking at to get started?

thanks

 

got started

I checked out and started the forms authentication, was nice as i could define access rules per folder which is exactly what I wanted. I created 2 roles, 2 users and 2 folders and some rules for the folders.

now I gotta figure out how to deploy the changes to discountasp.net

 

...I've created a Webcast for that and a few of the steps needed.
If you need help let me know.

 

which one is it

Thanks for the reply and help.. wow, very nice webcasts, I'll be spending some time on them for sure
I got lost and couldn't tell which one of them is the one I'm after, can you help?

 

ok nice.. I got it working..

so, as you know, all the security settings gets saved in a database, namely the aspnetdb.mdf

instead of trying to figure out how to add all that got changed from the aspnetdb.mdf to my database on discount asp.net, I remaped the AspNetSqlProvider to the database on dasp and then redid my security setup and that was that...

this is what I used to remap the AspNetSqlProvider:

<remove name="LocalSqlServer" />
<add name="LocalSqlServer" connectionString="Data Source=sql2k801.discountasp.net;Initial ......"
providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
</connectionStrings>