Linux Tutorial - Apache Web Login Authentication:

Linux Tutorial - Apache Web Login Authentication::

Password protection by a single login:

Password files:

1. Create the directory you want to password protect (example: membersonly)
2. Create a file /home/domain/public_html/membersonly/.htaccess in that director that looks something like this:
   

   AuthName "Add your login message here."   AuthType Basic   AuthUserFile /home/domain/public_html/membersonly/.htpasswd   AuthGroupFile /dev/null   require user name-of-user

   In this case the "name-of-user" is the login name you wish to use for accessing the web site.




3. Create (or clobber if it already exists) the password file /home/domain/public_html/membersonly/.htpasswd using the program htpasswd:
   

   htpasswd -c .htpasswd name-of-user