Password Protect A Page With Cp?

[MindSlayerSauces]

I need a little help here. Here’s what I want to do.

I have a page, we’ll call it page.php.

 

I want to password protect that page so that when a user clicks on it, is asks for a username & password to view it. I know this can be done to a directory with the control panel under password protect directories. However I can’t move these particular pages as they are part of an oscommerce store.

 

Is there a simple way to do this in the CP? Can it be done?

thanks in advance

[TCH-Andy]

Hi,

 

You can't protect individual files using cpanel, you would need to edit your .htaccess directly.

 

The simplest way, is to create the complete directory as a a password protected directory in cpanel (then you get the structure and passwords set up in cpanel) then edit your .htaccess file which will contain something like;

>AuthName "My Protected file"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile "/home/cpanelusername/.htpasswds/directory/passwd"

require valid-user

Then modify it to;

>AuthName "My Protected file"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile "/home/cpanelusername/.htpasswds/directory/passwd"
<Files myprotectedfile.htm>
require valid-user
</Files>

by adding the couple of lines shown above

[abinidi]

Wow.

Nifty solution. I'm impressed.

[Samrc]

Andy, if you add/remove more user name/passwords to that directory, will cPanel overwrite the file and remove that line of code? I know passwords are not kept in the same file and are encrypted, but didn't know if the .htaccess file would be modified too.

[TCH-Andy]

If you just add users / passwords then no, it doesn't modify the .htaccess, so you should be fine.