How to password protect my site.
I am thinking of building a site, but it would be just for family related stuff so I would want to have it password protected. Does anyone know how to go about doing that?
Thank you.
I am thinking of building a site, but it would be just for family related stuff so I would want to have it password protected. Does anyone know how to go about doing that?
Thank you.
robfenn posted this at 10:16 — 18th September 2007.
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If something not that important, sharing photos or something, a plug-in JavaScript would probably do...
http://www.stockxpert.com/browse.phtml?f=view&id=92128
Smp Business Hosting posted this at 11:13 — 18th September 2007.
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If you were using the 'cPanel' control panel you'd be able to use the 'password protect directories' function
and put a password on the public-html folder so a visitor would be prompted to enter a password to enter the site.
This would be more secure than a JavaScript password script
Regards, Steve
pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 18:42 — 18th September 2007.
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Javascript would not be a good idea because Javascript runs on the client-side, and can be easily disabled. Using an .htaccess file would be the easiest and most secure way to do it.
A nice tutorial for setting that up can be found here -> http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/apache/password-protect-a-directory-with-htaccess/
cPanel does have a way of automating this process as Steve said.
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