{"id":833,"date":"2013-08-27T14:48:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T09:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techkunji.com\/?p=833"},"modified":"2014-09-19T23:34:23","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T18:04:23","slug":"password-protect-a-website-or-sub-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/2013\/08\/27\/password-protect-a-website-or-sub-directory","title":{"rendered":"Password Protect a Website or Sub-directory: Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I was setting up a back-end admin page for a site and I wanted it to be only accessible by admins<\/span>. So I came across an article by Chris Coyier on css-tricks.com<\/a>. But the article was for advanced users. A newbie like me will end up getting errors. I ended up getting 500 Server error and after hours of Googling I was able to set it up properly. Follow the steps below and you will be able to password protect a website or sub-directory\u00a0in no time.<\/p>\n

Steps:<\/h2>\n

Creating .htaccess and .htpasswd files<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Visit\u00a0http:\/\/www.tools.dynamicdrive.com\/password\/<\/a>\u00a0to generate the contents for your<\/span>\u00a0.htaccess and .htpasswd files. It’s a free online\u00a0.htaccess Password Generator.<\/p>\n

\"password<\/a><\/p>\n

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  1. Enter usernames<\/span>, one per line<\/li>\n
  2. Enter passwords for the usernames<\/span> on the left<\/li>\n
  3. Enter filepath<\/span> where you will be storing your .htpasswd (If you don’t know the filepath<\/span>, read the end of the article).<\/li>\n
  4. Submit<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    After submitting you will get a page with your<\/span> .htaccess and .htpasswd codes.<\/p>\n

    \"htacces<\/p>\n

    Create 2 files .htaccess and .htpasswd in the file directory you want to protect and copy paste the codes from the above site to the respective file.<\/p>\n

    \"htaccess<\/a><\/p>\n

    Finding the path of of the folder where you will be storing your password file (.htpasswd)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    This is for people who don’t know the full path of your site directory.<\/p>\n

    Visit\u00a0http:\/\/www.htaccesstools.com\/articles\/full-path-to-file-using-php\/<\/a>\u00a0and follow the instructions to find your full path of your site directory.<\/p>\n

    I have tried to keep the steps as simple as possible. If you run into some error, let me know through the comments and I will help you sort it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Recently I was setting up a back-end admin page for a site and I wanted it to be only accessible by admins. So I came across an article by Chris Coyier on css-tricks.com. But the article was for advanced users. A newbie like me will end up getting errors. I ended up getting 500 Server […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[74,76,30],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hosting","tag-htaccess","tag-security","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.viralmediatoday.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}