passwording a part of my site?

[Coolone]

can someone tell me how i can go about passwording a portion of my web site? i've been looking around on search engines and i just cant find anything that would work. if you need info about my site/server, please let me know

thanks in advance!

 

[NetworkDad]

Depending on what you use for site management...that's where i would go first. Example, i use PleskServer to manage all of my domain stuff. Normally, your hosting company provides that info for you, check with them.

 

[minendo]

What kind of coding are you using? Just html?

 

[GigaCluster]

Search Google for "htaccess"... if you have shell or FTP access, this is probably what you need.

 

[Coolone]

i'm just using html

and i'm checking on that htaccess thing now

 

[gooneygoon]

What webserver is serving the files?

 

[Coolone]

well i own the server machine, and i'm using apache...

does that help? sorry if i'm being a newb with this

 

[astartz]

In the directory which you want to protect, create a .htaccess file which contains:


AuthUserFile /full/path/to/passfile
AuthName "protected area"
AuthType Basic
<Limit GET POST>
require valid-user
</Limit>

Now the /full/path/to/passfile need to be the full path.

OK, now just make a passfile use this format
username1assword It needs to say username : Password for some reason the exmple to the left is not working.
...

The passwords must be encrypted.

When people go to that directory they will be asked for there password.

 

[Platypus]

If you are using apache, you can create a .htaccess file. There are plenty of tutorials on the web for this.

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

I use PLESK to manage my domain as well, makes it easy to do things like password protecting a folder.

 

[Colt45]

theres a program called htpasswd. its in your apache stuff.. RTFM about it

ive never used .htaccess, but htpasswd worked great for me when i used it.

There is htdigest too, which is the md5 encrypted version of htpasswd, IIRC.