How to Password Protect a Directory on Your Website

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Start date Dec 27, 2014
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Faaiza

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Hello,

Does anyone know ways how to password protect a directory on your website?
I would like to know ways do it manually
My hosting is running apache web server, PHP and htaccess...

please guide me

Hassan

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There are different ways you can define in .htaccess or via ssh.

Faaiza

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Faaiza

Do you know how to do that? please guide me step by step

Dec 27, 2014

webdesign

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webdesign

Create a .htaccess file with following information

Code:

AuthName "Please login to secure folder"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /path/to/your/folder/.htpasswd
require valid-user

Note that you should put .htpasswd in account folder outside of directories that can be accessed by your visitors

For example:

Code:

/path/to/your/yourdomain.com/.htpasswd

Ok now you will set up the password File, .htpasswd

in file, you type

Code:

usename1:password1
usename2:password2

You can send account with usenname1 and pasword1 to user 1 and same to user 2

finally chmod 644 for .htpasswd file

Hope it helps!

Quadrivium

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The password, shown above in the previous post, has to be encrypted. You can use the "htpasswd" command in Linux or find an online .htaccess password generator. Just search Google for ".htaccess Password Generator"

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