KING

Today I will show you how is easy creating .htaccess and .htpasswd files to secure some websites folders.

Example:

We run apache and our files are located in /var/www/my-apache-files/secret-folder/

And we want to have password access to this /secret-folder/.

There how we do it:

Use Commands:

cd /var/

htpasswd -c .htpasswd username

New password:blablabla

Re-type new password:blablabla

This commands will create .htpasswd file in /var/.htpasswd

Now go to:

cd /var/www/my-apache-files/secret-folder/

Now we creating .htaccess file:

pico .htaccess

paste to file this lines:

Options +Indexes
AuthUserFile /var/.htpasswd
AuthName “SECRET ZONE”
AuthType Basic
<Limit GET POST>
require valid-user
</Limit>

Ctrl+X y

and we done