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Title: Subscription Service
Post by: Tyrone Miles on March 06, 2003, 04:38:26 AM

I want to start a subscription service similar to the kind you see used on adult sites where you pay for a month and you get a password and access to a site. I want to do that and sell the music I make. Anyone know of software that is cheap and can be used on e-smith?

Thanks for the help in advance. :-)

Title: Re: Subscription Service
Post by: NickR on March 06, 2003, 03:58:34 PM

Sounds like a job for .htaccess.  You can get a contrib here:

Title: Re: Subscription Service
Post by: Ben Broekhuizen on March 06, 2003, 04:01:25 PM

That is only usefull in combination with a script for adding/deleting users (or learn how to do that yourself).

Title: Re: Subscription Service
Post by: JeffC on March 06, 2003, 05:19:33 PM

Take a look at contribs.org/LinkBase and do a search for "webshare".  This will give you a secure, server-manager based download location.

-jeff

Title: Re: Subscription Service
Post by: Tyrone Miles on March 07, 2003, 05:04:10 AM

Will any of these apps allow me to set something up that allow users to sign up on-line and have a password etc sent to them. (Like adult sites do?)

Title: Re: Subscription Service
Post by: alejandro on March 07, 2003, 04:57:40 PM

No one here seems to have been in "that kind" of sites you describe!  ;-) ;-)




just a joke!

Title: Re: Subscription Service
Post by: Ingo on March 08, 2003, 02:32:00 AM

Easy with a little bit of PHP ;)

I've set that up for quite a few sites... but I'll see if there's something available ready made for you to plug into e-smith and get back to you...

I use an e-smith server to test all my php... but not sure how integrated it is with the e-smith server set up itself, as most of the sites I work on are later moved to another server...   though, if you're going for on-line credit card ordering etc, you'll need to get an SSL certificate for your server, and have internet merchant facilities with your bank etc - otherwise, you could always try using something like clickbank...

'cause the sending of the passwords etc is the easy bit... it's getting the $$$ that can sometimes be a pain ;)

Have you already got all of the $$$ part of it organised?


regards,
Ingo.
www_ingofx_com

Title: Re: Subscription Service
Post by: Tyrone Miles on March 08, 2003, 10:28:59 AM

I can use Pay Pal which allows recurring payments and I can set up links for that. Or something of that nature. I can allow them to get a password and I can run the card if it fails then I can cut off the access.