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.htaccess Password Protection

I've got a couple directories for work in progress that I need an easy way to password protect. It would just be for a single username/password. I'm thinking .htaccess is probably the easiest way to go about it, but I'm not sure how to implement this. Any help out there?

TIA

.htaccess (adjusting the path to fit your area)

Code:

AuthUserFile /var/www/domain.com/admin/.htpasswd

AuthName "Members Only"

AuthType Basic



require valid-user

If you have shell access:

htpasswd -c /var/www/domain.com/admin/.htpasswd username

it will then prompt you for a password & verification

If you don't have shell, you can run this (test being of course the password you want to use):

Code:


print crypt('test','ab');

?>

And take the output from that and upload a file called .htpasswd that contains:

username:outputfromabove

Here is a page that will generate the encrypted passwords without using a shell
http://www.e2.u-net.com/htaccess/make.htm