Hi.I'm new at web, and I want to create a site. I've ordered a domain name and hosting, so now I have access to storage on hosting. What have I to do to protect any folder using htpasswd?
All that I have in http folder is index.html and folder examle, that contains .htaccess and .htpasswd and example2 folder, that should be protected.
When I try to access example2 folder from browser, I get popup window, that asking me for a login and password, and when I enter it I have a 500 internal sever error
Ok, so I have the answer. It's strange that the commentators didn't undertood the error, because as I understood the 500 error has only one meaning - server can't find a file. So, communyty members again talks about everytihng they can intstead that they was asked about-_-(yes, yes, there are a lot of grammar mistakes, but you understood(I hope)).
So here are a few steps for newers, like me, that can help to protect data of your site via `.htpasswd`
Getting the correct file path
Create file in folder you need to be protected, with .php extesion, and name it, how you like. Put this code there, and save it.
<?php
echo 'Полный путь к каталогу: ';
echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
echo '/';
?>
Visit this page via browser, there will be wrote the full path to php document you've created.
Creating .htaccess and .htpasswd files
Go to folder you need to be protected by password and create two files - .htaccess and .htpasswd. You should notice, that these files shouldn't have any extensions, and they must be named exactly with . character in the begining.
Writing to .htaccess
Put there this one
AuthUserFile /path/to/.htpasswd
AuthType Basic
AuthName "My restricted Area"
Require valid-user
Instead of /path/to/ put the path you've got earlier. That's all
Writing to .htpasswd
Go to https://www.web2generators.com/apache-tools/htpasswd-generator and fill there login and password, and it will return you encrypted login:pass combination. Open .htpasswd file and just put it there.
That's all, it should work
Related
A friend wants me to implement basic file security on his site that he can look after himself.
I think the simplest option is to put a .htaccess file into the folder he wants to protect and that will redirect all requests to a php file in the root.
The php file will then check if the user is logged in and serve the file or request a fixed shared login password.
It's going ok so far except for two problems.
Firstly I can't get the htaccess file work based on the directory it is located in - I can only manage it by hard coding the directory into the htaccess file.
Secondly, I can get the php file to know the url of the file that was requested.
Any help and pointers would be great!
It sounds like what you are wanting to do can be done a little more easily with an .htpasswd setup.
You will just place this in an .htaccess of the directory you are trying to protect and all of the sub-directories will be protected as well.
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Password Protected Area"
AuthUserFile /path/to/.htpasswd
Require valid-user
And then create an .htpasswd file and use a tool like this to generate the credentials.
Alternatively, the way you are suggesting to do it will require the use of either cookies or sessions and here is another question that should help a bit more with setting that up.
I'm trying to password protect a webpage, say index.html that's located at mysite.com/mysubfolder/index.html. How I've done this, is I've placed both a .htaccess and a .htpasswd file in the directory public_html/mysubfolder/, with .htacess containing the following:
AuthName "Secure Area"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /public_html/mysubfolder/.htpasswd
Require valid-user
Now, when I type in www.mysite.com/mysubfolder into the address bar, I get the prompt to type in the user name and password, which I do, with the credentials that generated my .htpasswd file. But when I do, an empty page shows up - no error or warning, just a white page. I have other folders inside this directory, and for them too nothing shows up, when I try to access them directly through the address bar. When I click View Page Source, all I see is
<!-- SHTML Wrapper - 500 Server Error -->
I have no idea what to do now. I want everyone who types in that webpage or clicks through a link to it (mysite.com/mysubfolder/index.html or mysite.com/mysubfolder)to have to type in the specific credentials I have chosen. Am I doing something wrong? Maybe there is a better way? Thanks in advance.
i am an Apache Illiterate person, and i need very simple password protection for a directory using a .htaccess file. very simple one.
i also wonder how tutorials simply tells me "put the .htpasswd file in the path.." i tried to create a .htpasswd file but failed to do that. if someone volunteers to help please keep in mind i use win server 2008 and please consider that my experience in Apache is almost zero.
Use this to generate your htpasswd file: http://www.htaccesstools.com/htpasswd-generator/
You should get a hash back from that and just place that in your htpasswd file. I very strongly suggest that you do not put your htpasswd file in your document root. It would make it accessible via apache.
Edit for clarification:
For example, your apache webserver serves this directory: C:\www\htdocs, and you want to protect this directory with username and password: C:\www\htdocs\secure. You create this .htaccess file and put it in your C:\www\htdocs\secure directory:
AuthType BASIC
# You can choose whatever name you want here
AuthName "Protected"
AuthUserFile C:\www\htpasswd
Require valid-user
You see the C:\www\htpasswd? You need to create that file. Go to that htpasswd-generator link above. Enter a username, enter a password, click on "Create .htpasswd file", the page will give you a text field with your username and a bunch of gibberish. Copy that whole thing and create the file C:\www\htpasswd and paste that into the file.
That's it.
Not sure how much simpler it can get.
Hi
Is there a way to protect a folder and its contents using .htaccess file but only from external access?
Meaning: files inside the server can access the folder but if some one tries to access it directly it prompts for an user and password.
I'm using AuthType Basic already. But when an external file tries to access the image inside the protected folder, there emerges the problem.
To clarify (at least try to), what I have is one folder with many, many images and I don't want them to be accessed but I want my php scripts to have access outside the folder. Like
/index.php
/images/ -> same level of index.php
/admin/photos/ -> index.php can access the files inside this folder without restriction. something like the files has its own user and password.
There's a couple of things you can do but I think you might want to clarify your question. I think what you're asking is how you protect certain files from web access but still allow your scripts (like a PHP script) to be able to access the data.
If that's the case then you simply need to put your data files outside of the DocumentRoot. Apache will only load files that it is allowed to access but PHP, or other scripting languages can access any file anywhere (as long as the user the process executes as has the appropriate permissions)
If you really want user/password access to certain files from the web:
AuthType Basic
AuthName "My super secret folder"
AuthUserFile "/path/to/some/user_file"
require valid-user
That will restrict outside access but will not restrict any access from scripts or people/programs on the server itself.
I have password protected website with .htaccess. What I want to do now is to force users to login from the index.html page and not from any other which they can do now. ie. I have index.html (the main page) and I have two other pages 1.html and 2. html also protected with .htaccess password. Users can now type http://www.mypage.com/1.html and they will be asked for login data but I would like to force them (before they are asked for login details) to index.html to login. After they are loggedin they can use any link (ie.1.html or 2.html) as they want.
Can this be done by using .htaccess? I would need the whole code. Thank you!
With .htaccess you may protect the whole directory with password:
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted Files"
AuthBasicProvider file
AuthUserFile /path/to/passwords/file/passwords
Require user myuser
you may create passwords file with the following command:
htpasswd -c /path/to/passwords/file/passwords myuser
You may complete description with good examples in Apache docs.
If you use apache to protect a directory you can't create a login form on your index.html for it. The login dialog is instead created by the browser.
You can however force people to first go to index.html, by checking the referrer header. If it exists and is different than domain.com/index.html you can redirect to index.html. You'll have to use mod_rewrite for this.