Locked Area v6.4 Released!

11 October 2008

We are pleased to announce the release of Locked Area version 6.4 Stable which is considered stable.
 

Locked Area v6.3 Beta Released!

20 September 2008

We are pleased to announce the release of Locked Area version 6.3 Beta which resolves further issues with mySQL database mode in the software. Version 6.3 beta is considered more stable than the latest stable release, v6.0.
 

Locked Area v6.2 Beta Released!

06 September 2008

We are pleased to announce the release of Locked Area version 6.2 Beta which resolves various issues with mySQL database mode in the software.
 

Locked Area v6.1 Beta Released!

05 August 2008

We are very pleased to annouce the release of Locked Area version 6.1 Beta which resolves all known issues in the software including the 'request new password' issue in version 6.0.
 

Site Updates and New Logo

03 August 2008

The site has received numerous tweaks including a new logo and we have also made various adjustments to the web site including an improved FAQ database and general content revisions. Locked Area v6.1 is currently in the final stages of beta testing and should be released shortly.

User Database Optimisation

29 April 2008

We are currently consolidating and optimising our users database which has been growing for over seven years now! As part of this process we will be de-activating all accounts associated to email addresses which produced failure notices when we sent our February and March newsletters.
 
Any accounts affected by this change have not been removed but simply de-activated/suspended. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any trouble restoring your account.

Locked Area v6.0 Released!

27 March 2008

We are very pleased to announce the release of Locked Area version 6.0 available in both Lite and Pro versions and would like to invite you to be one of the first people to try the software.

To download version 6.0:
http://my.locked-area.com/download.php

To discuss the software and report any issues:
http://my.locked-area.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1649

To view a demonstration of the software:
http://www.locked-area.com/demonstration.php

Locked Area v6.0 Beta Released!

30 January 2008

We are very pleased to announce the release of Locked Area version 6.0 Beta.

To download version 6.0 Beta, please see: http://my.locked-area.com/download.php
 
To discuss the software and report any issues, please see: http://my.locked-area.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1649

Affiliate Program Changes

28 January 2008

As of 28th January 2008, all affiliates will earn 15% commission rather than the previous 10% commission. We are also very pleased to announce the minimum balance for payout has been cut in half to £25 GBP. Commissions are now also paid for Locked Area Pro sales, enabling you to earn £4.35 GBP for each sale!

For more information, please see: http://www.ionix.ltd.uk/affiliates.php

Locked Area v5.0 Released!

04 September 2007

• Locked Area is now Windows compatible!
• Administration panel significant layout revisions and features improvements.
• PayPal Subscription Payments integration added, allowing you to charge a monthly fee for your secure content (Pro version only).
• Automated account expiration (Pro version only).
• Registration system code revisions and feature improvements.
• Improved automated upgrade facility.
• New batch installer, resolving common installation issues.

Coming Soon...

05 July 2007

We were feeling a little guilty that everything has gone so quiet in recent weeks, and we're sorry to say it's going to be that way for a little while longer, but there's good reason:

NEW WEB SITES
Our entire network of web sites will be receiving a revamp, and not just a new design, the entire structure of our network will be changing, including a centralised login system for all our web sites. All our web sites are receiving new web site designs, new content, newproduct releases and more...

LOCKED AREA
Version 4.3 is now undergoing beta testing, this release includes some fantastic new features including PayPal Subscription Payments integration, allowing you to charge a monthly fee for your secure content. Locked Area version 4.3 is also Windows compatible, and compatible with many main stream web hosts which were previously incompatible.

DIRECTORYPASS
Version 1.4 is currently in development pending beta release and we are very pleased to announce that from version 1.4 onwards, DirectoryPass will now be an Open Source project released under the GNU GPL license. DirectoryPass is also going to be available in a variety of different languages, including French, German, Spanish, Japanese and Turkish thanks to contributors!

OPENCRYPT
Version 1.5 is currently in development and will include a huge list of new features and facilities, including advanced PayPal integration, improved statistics system, re-designed administration panel and frontend and the new OpenCrypt shopping cart system. We are also very pleased to announce a new collection of add-on modules for OpenCrypt, including a fully featured helpdesk and support system, a picture gallery and file distribution/sale system, a file management system allowing users to create file repositories and a personal communicator add-on.

OTHER NEWS
Our .htaccess guide is proving ever more popular by the day, and shall be receiving a new design and some new content.

We are also very pleased to announce Heart Internet now offer Locked Area for automated installation in their web site control panel.

Locked Area v4.2 Released

03 May 2007

Locked Area v4.2 is now available from my.Locked-Area.com. At this time v4.2 should be considered beta, though all known bugs in v4.1 have been removed. A new version of Locked Area Pro is also available, to request your copy please contact laupgrade@locked-area.com including your license ID.

FAQ Database Updated

25 April 2007

Quick note to let you all know we have made some updates to the frequently asked questions database.

Apologies for the downtime

12 April 2007

Our sincerest apologies for the recent server downtime! The issue has now been resolved.

Locked Area Lite v4.1 Released

11 December 2006

Locked Area Lite version 4.1 has been released, resolving a number of minor issues. The latest version, including v3.3 to v4.x upgrade instructions are available from http://my.Locked-Area.com/

News - November 2006

11 November 2006

We hope you are enjoying Autumn and looking forward to the Winter season and would like to welcome you to our new look newsletter for November.

New Locked-Area.com Web Site Opened
We are very pleased to announce the opening of our new Locked-Area.com web site. We hope you find it more user friendly and aesthetically appealing. Please take a look via the link below and of course, don't hesitate to get in touch with your feedback.

Please see: http://www.Locked-Area.com/

Locked Area Lite v4.0 Released
We've been very busy and have now completed the re-write of Locked Area. This latest version offers some fantastic new facilities including support for mySQL and Text databases. It also includes a heavily improved administration panel including full account search facilities, and the entire frontend is now template based for your easy modification. We've also decided to bring back Locked Area Pro, with a somewhat different approach to its predecessor. Locked Area Pro is now available as an automatic upgrade for Locked Area Lite, offering extended features such as email address verification and administrator account validation facilities. The upgrade process is impressively simple, in fact all you have to do is pay $50 USD and the software upgrades automatically.

The Locked Area Lite version 4.0 download is now available from my.Locked-Area, a v3.x to v4.0 database conversion tool is also available.

Please see: http://my.Locked-Area.com/download.php (Login Required)

OpenCrypt v1.1 Released
OpenCrypt v1.1, the latest version of our enterprise membership management solution is now complete and offers a range of new and improved facilities. We have also completed a fully-featured affiliate/referral system add-on for OpenCrypt which allows your web site users and visitors to earn money or even cheaper subscriptions by referring new users to your web site.

OpenCrypt users, to submit an upgrade request to our technical support team, please submit your request via the online helpdesk at the following URL:

Please see: http://www.OpenCrypt.com/helpdesk.php

Please make sure you include the URL of your administration panel and appropriate login details, FTP details so we may access your installation, and it is very important you include details so we may access your mySQL control panel (e.g. phpMyAdmin). All OpenCrypt customers are entitled to the free upgrade service, however we do ask that requests be submitted via the online helpdesk. Requests submitted via email will be ignored.

If you are interested in our software, OpenCrypt and would like to review our web site and see the software in action;

Please see: http://www.OpenCrypt.com/


Thank you for your continued support of, Locked-Area.com!

News - September 2006

30 September 2006

It's been a fantastic summer and we've made great progress with our new product, OpenCrypt. We've also completely re-written Locked Area. This latest version offers some fantastic new facilities including support for mySQL and Text databases. It also includes a heavily improved administration panel including full account search facilities, and the entire frontend is now template based for your easy modification. We've also decided to bring back Locked Area Pro, with a somewhat different approach to its predecessor. Locked Area Pro is now available as an automatic upgrade for Locked Area Lite, offering extended features such as email address verification and administrator account validation facilities. The upgrade process is impressively simple, in fact all you have to do is pay $50 USD and the software upgrades automatically.

We have completed the re-write and will be releasing it in a matter of days, but we would love some help from our valued users to ensure it is bug-free before official release, if you are interested in helping us test the software and have adequate experience using Locked Area to assist us as such, please visit the link below to view the download listings page and select the file 'Locked Area Lite v4.02 BETA ZIP', then select 'Download File'.

Please see: http://my.locked-area.com/download.html
(my.Locked-Area.com Login Details Required)

As a thank you for helping with the testing process, the first user to upgrade to Locked Area Pro will be refunded the $50 USD payment and will receive the upgrade free of charge as a thank you from us for helping test the upgrade process.

A stable version of Locked Area Lite/Pro version 4.0 including an upgrade tool for v3.3 will be released within a week.
Please see: http://www.Locked-Area.com/


OPENCRYPT NEWS
OpenCrypt v1.1, the next update which will offer a range of new and improved facilities will be released within the next two weeks. We will also be releasing a fully-featured affiliate/referral system allowing your web site users and visitors to earn money or even cheaper subscriptions by referring new users to your web site.

If you are interested in our software, OpenCrypt and would like to review our web site and see the software in action;
Please see: http://www.OpenCrypt.com/

Keep an eye on the sites over the coming months, as we've got plenty more changes in store! We'll try and keep you updated of the major improvements through our members database.

Thank you for your continued support of, Locked-Area.com.

Web Site Maintenance

04 September 2006

Over the next 24 to 48 hours we will be updating our web site content on both Locked-Area.com and OpenCrypt.com. During this time, please forgive any errors or problems that may occur as a result of this update. The update will be completed by midnight on the 6th September (GMT). Please report any errors or problems you receive at this point and we will resolve them immediately.

We thank you for your patience during the update!

New Web Site

08 July 2006

We hope you like the new web site design and new version's of Locked Area Lite and DirectoryPass. A more official and announced opening will be in a few days when we are ready to start accepting payments for OpenCrypt. We are just waiting for the payment processing company to set-up a new account for us.

LA Pro Discount Sale

06 March 2006

In the uncoming weeks, Locked Area Pro is due to be replaced by our latest offering, OpenCrypt. For a short period only, we are selling Locked Area Pro software licenses (which include a years free upgrade to OpenCrypt upon release) for just $65 USD.
For more information and your chance to get your hands on our new software for a fraction of the price please visit the Locked Area Pro information [LINK UPDATED] page.

Apologies for recent downtime

05 June 2005

Our sincerest apologies for any downtime you may have experienced today. This was due to domain and dns issues, the fault has now been resolved and we expect no further downtime. Our apologies to our Locked Area Pro users who may have experienced problems with their administration panels!

login.cgi Problems #2

03 March 2004

If you are having problems with login.cgi, a free program is available to update your Windows registry to resolve the problem. Obviously this will only resolve the fault on your own computer and not your visitors. Please see: http://www.armchairmarketer.com/problem/
We hope to have the new login.cgi released shortly!

login.cgi Problems

05 February 2004

Some of you may have noticed a problem develop over the last couple of days relating to login.cgi. The problem is sadly out of our control, Microsoft have chosen to remove an invalueable tool from Internet Explorer which allows member's area login by including login details in the url. For example,
http://username:password@lockedarea.com/members/
would by passes the pop-up.
For more information, please see: Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 834489

I have been attempting to speak to Microsoft about this matter, but obviously this is proving near impossible! In the meantime, I suggest directing users to login using the pop-up window until we have found a work around. Also, your support in pestering Microsoft to remove this change is very much needed!

This fault may not affect you just yet, it is coming into effect using an IE patch which is available to download as part of Windows Update, so over this week the majority of IE users will not be able to use login.cgi.

We will post an update if we hear of any changes and will hopefully release an updated login.cgi soon!

Lite v3.2 Released

29 September 2003

Locked Area Lite v3.2 Linux Stable has been released. This release offers a few minor bug fixes as well as several handy new features and tools.

Fixed Bugs:

• The member?s account modification tool had a few minor issues when changing passwords or other account information. These problems have now been resolved.
  
• locked.cgi had a couple of problems relating to username and password length checking, these have been fixed.

Lite v3.1 Linux Stable

08 June 2002

Locked Area Lite v3.1 has now been released and is available from the download section of the member's area. Sadly their are no new features in it except one, it's simply a maintenance release hopefully removing all the existing bugs.

Fixed Bugs:
- Lost password facility fixed.
- URLs being recorded without colon fixed.
- Username and passwords over 9 characters in length bug removed.
- Random additional of characters in .htpasswd file is hopefully removed though I have no way of testing for this.
- Signup form disabling bypass (security hole) removed.

New to v3.1.
- Improved installation system.
- Now includes login.cgi Version 1 and 2 so you choose which you use.

Hope you like it, next to be released will be Pro v2.1.

Lite v3.0 Linux Stable

10 March 2002

Well it's finally been released, Locked Area Lite v3.0 Linux Stable is now available for download from the member's area. This is a complete re-write of Locked Area Lite and now includes:
- Randomised DES password encryption for increased security.
- Passwords held in member's database are no encrypted for extra security.
- The password lookup facility has been removed and has been relaced by a request new password facility.
- File locking for extra security.
- Easier customisation of fonts and colours etc...
- Password change and account modification are now combined.
- New notification facility for administrator so they know when a user removed themselves from the member's area.
- Configuration is now done from the administration panel.
- Signup online/offline facility to allow the administrator to close the registration from and stop new signups.
- Statistics system is now combined with administration panel.
- New delete user facility.
- .htpasswd file can now be anywhere you want rather than just in the member's area directory.
- Significantly improved installation program which is now capable of detecting some variables for the user.

To download Locked Area Lite v3.0 Linux Stable, please visit the member's area.

Beta Test Lite v3.0

12 January 2002

Locked Area Lite v3.0 Linux Stable is now complete, but as it's a complete re-write, it would be best to do a bit of beta testing before distributing. So, if anyone would like to try out a copy, please email beta@lockedarea.com.