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devork
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Is there any other way to secure pages other than checking session validation method (to check at the start whether the session variables is registered or not ....)
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Which webserver are you using? They each offer various methods of protecting folders or files.

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I am using Apache 2.. on linux box
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apache allows you to secure an entire directly using .htaccess files

find more here - http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/auth.html
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