NewPush » htaccess http://newpush.com Server Hosting, Data Warehouse Hosting, Collaboration Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:25:44 +0000 en hourly 1 Setting up Apache Authentication with htpasswd / htaccesshttp://newpush.com/2009/05/setting-up-apache-authentication-with-htpasswd-htaccess/ http://newpush.com/2009/05/setting-up-apache-authentication-with-htpasswd-htaccess/#comments Sun, 31 May 2009 15:35:44 +0000 Balazs http://www.wdream.com/?p=297 Continue reading →]]> Authentication in Apache is done through htaccess, either from the configuration file, or from the .htaccess file in a given directory. Note that only full directories can be easily protected with this method.
Here is how: (first log in to the shell, as this method only works if
you have shell access)

$ cd .../html/protected_dir

$ cat > .htaccess

AuthType Basic

Authname "Protected KLC directory"

AuthUserFile ../../control/htpasswd

AuthGroupFile /dev/null

Require valid-user

+d

$ htpasswd -c ../../control/htpasswd user_name

[give passwd]

After the file is created for the first time, to
add more users:

$ htpasswd ../../control/htpasswd user_name

There are also more sophisticated authentication schemes available, that allow database driven authentication. Feel free to contact me for more information about those solutions.

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