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.
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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.
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
I would like to fake directory path with .htaccess, but I haven't got much experience with it, so I'm asking you, guys.
Let's say my URL is http://example.com/test and I got some scripts in that folder. I would like to hide the URL, so I wouldn't be able to access by it's real URL, but I could access it with e.g. http://example.com/test2.
I simply would like to hide and fake the directory.
To simply protect the page with a password you can add the following into your .htaccess on the page you want to protect:
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Password Protected Area"
AuthUserFile /path/to/.htpasswd <-- change this to your full path to .htpasswd
Require valid-user
Then create the .htpasswd file, and create user/password combinations. Like this:
test:dGRkPurkuWmW2
Directions can be found on this page:
http://www.htaccesstools.com/articles/password-protection/
Use a password generator like this one to generate an encrypted password:
http://www.htaccesstools.com/htpasswd-generator/
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 have a passwordprotected directory with htaccess and htpasswd.
The htaccess looks like this
AuthUserFile /usr/local/you/safedir/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName EnterPassword
AuthType Basic
require user myusername
The htpasswd looks like this
myusername:password887
This password protected directory is named www.mydomainname.com/mystuff
Now, I want to access this page fram a iframe (with www.mydomain.com/mustuff/index.html as src) in index.php in my root, but I dont want to make the users fill in the username and password all the time, just keep them from entering the folder the src is in.
Is there a script that can fill out the username and password automatically without letting the "users" write the username and password all the time?
You can src the frame with the username and password in the link itself:
http://myusername:password887#www.mydomainname.com/mystuff
But this sort of defeats the purpose of password protecting the directory since anyone can look at the page source and know the username/password, and not all browsers support this type of URL.
You could make it so the referer is checked when attempting to access the /mystuff directory, and if it's from where the iframe is embedded, allow access without prompting for a password. But the referer can be spoofed very easily.
no, there is no possibility, because htpasswd is for this use case