Password-protecting Web Folders II
Now we will create the .htaccess file needed for our password-protected web folder to work.
.HTACCESS file
Next create a new page and type in the following and save it as .htaccess:
code:
AuthType Basic AuthName "Secret Articles" AuthUserFile /home/username/.htpasswd/articles/secret/passwd require valid-user
Save this file to:
path: /home/username/public_html/articles/secret/.htaccess
If you are like me and use NotePad (and Windows ME PC), you will not be able to save this file as .htaccess.
You can either create and name the file using Dreamweaver (where you can rename the file to .htaccess without any problems) or
Save the file as htaccess.txt, upload the file to your web server and rename it there...
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