ArtistScope Web Encrypt - Installation
Requirements
Web Encrypt does not require DLLs to be installed on the web
or the server. For your installation and management all that
you need is a web site on a Windows web server with ASP
support. For example, a FrontPage web site will be most
adequate. Database support can be either Access or MS-SQL.
Installation
1. Unzip the install package
2. Upload the “webencrypt” folder to the root of your web site
3. Set read/write permissions on the “dbase” folder if the
Access database is used.
4. For MS-SQL create a new database and import the tables and
data.
5. If modify your database path and default settings in
the dbconnection. file
6. Set read/write permissions on the upload folder named “webimages”.
Now point your web browser to http://yoursite.com/webencrypt/
Database connection strings
If you are adding Web Encrypt to existing web pages that
already have connection strings for another database, you can
proceed to add these because the code inserts have been
designed to be unique and thus not interfere with any existing
calls. Another option is to graft the database databases
tables onto your existing database.
Whether you are using MS-SQL or an Access database the tables
for Web Encrypt can be added to an existing database. For
Access databases simply open each database and copy’n’paste
the Web Encrypt tables to your existing database taking care
to ensure that the table names are the same.
Creating header and footer templates
Creating header and footer templates is simple. First thing to
do is find an existing web page that has the content and
layout that you want use. Then open your selected page in a
web browser and save the page as "html only". Do not save as
"whole page" because it will save all images and change the
image links to point to a new folder. You don't want that so
simply save as html only and then you will only have the html
with the links as they should be.
Open the saved page in Notepad and add the comment tags (seen
in red) to denote the start and end of the new page content:
Now if you copy'n'paste all of the html code from the top of
the html page to "start of new page area" then you will have
the code to use as your Web Encrypt page header. The html code
form "end of page area" to the end of the html page will be
the code to use for your Web Encrypt footer. Now copy'n'paste
into the relevant fields and then save the template.
You don't have to worry about special characters causing
database errors because the header and footer are also
encrypted and will no longer be in any format to affect
database record formats.
Standardizing text format
To maintain that all Web Encrypt web pages look and feel the
same as your existing web pages, you may want to use the same
font styles, colous and sizes. For example perhaps your web
site already use a CSS style sheet (style.css). To use the
same style sheet when inputting the page content all you have
to do is make sure that font style and size is not set using
the page editor. When the page editor saves your input it
replaces all the paragraph tags <p> with page breaks <br> so
that the font style applied by the table cell will apply to
all text.
For your new page area to use your CSS style add table html as
seen above. Where it says class="text" may have to be changed
to suit your style sheet. For example you have used a
different class name instead of "text". When using the CSS
style sheet nominated in your header template, you can still
use font formatting in special cases like headings which you
may want bold or larger, or even a different color.
Sterilizing text input to remove unwanted formatting
Whenever writing content to add to web pages, a good practice
to get into is finally dipping your text into Notepad to
remove all the unwanted formatting specifications that
programs like Word will add to text. Copy'n'pasting directly
from Word into most html editors in preview mode (and the same
applies when pasting into our page editor) you will end up
with a lot of hidden code that if anything will ruin whatever
text format you have in mind. So first copying to Notepad and
then copying from Notepad will remove all of the unwanted
rubbish.
Other web page encryption solutions
ArtistScope WARM provides
html encryption for web pages as well as total control over
user access rights to view the web pages. For copy protection of web pages
and documents while displayed in the user's web browser please
see CopySafe Web or
ArtistScope DRM.
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