Easy Website Password Protection .htaccess / Password Protection
You can now easily implement password-protected pages to protect folders in your web site. Use these password protected directories to sell downloadable products or provide premium access to members. In this password protection tutorial, we will explain how to create access authorization using only FTP.
Introduction to .htaccess .htaccess / General Guides
.Htaccess is a small text file that control configuration aspects of an Apache web server. Most people are familiar with the .htaccess file in relation with the ability to restrict access to a directory via password protection. However, .htaccess can do a lot more than password protection. .Htaccess is an extremely powerful configuration tool that can customize the way your web site behaves and how your web server handles requests.
Password Protection .htaccess / Password Protection
This section shows you how to use .htaccess to do this. It assumes, that you want the effect to apply to the whole site. The .htaccess file specifies the extent of the protection - it does not contain the passwords. These are stored in a separate file called .htpasswd.
iPasswd - .htpasswd password generator .htaccess / Password Protection
iPasswd is an online password generation tool for .htpasswd files. These files store a username and password combination (one per line of the file) which is used with .htaccess Basic Authentication. iPasswd also supports MD5 passwords, used in Digest Authentication.
Control File Defaults in Apache .htaccess / General Guides
Apache allows webmasters to create special files called .htaccess and .htpasswd with which access control and a range of defaults can be managed. This tutorial will first of all show you how to create a .htaccess file, and then how to use it to control error reporting, default filenames, and password protection.
.htaccess Guide .htaccess / General Guides
A comprehensive guide to the Apache Web Server's .htaccess configuraiton file. Includes full tutorial covering error documents, password protection, visitor blocking, hot linking prevention techniques and more.
What they are/How to use them .htaccess / General Guides
.htaccess files (or "distributed configuration files") provide a way to make configuration changes on a per-directory basis. A file, containing one or more configuration directives, is placed in a particular document directory, and the directives apply to that directory, and all subdirectories thereof.