How to make a folder password protected

This is a very simple task to do but still sometimes you need a guide for smooth sailing. Instead of mailing the same content again and again I decided to delegate the work to blog. I am covering the htaccess method for password protection.

Make sure you have access to use htaccess (Check your apache config or ask your hosting company). In order to protect a folder, you need to have two files inside the folder,

• .htaccess:
  AuthType Basic
AuthName "By Invitation Only"
AuthUserFile (Path to the passwd file)
Require user (username)


  Example
  AuthType Basic
AuthName "By Invitation Only"
AuthUserFile /home/www/secret/passwd
Require user ajinimc


• passwd: Go to http://spectrum.troy.edu/password/ and type the username and choose a password, lets take an example (username: ajinimc, password: 1234). The website created the encrypted password ajinimc:C6DneUKC5gSG2. Now add this to passwd file.

Now the folder is password protected. Try http://www.idealwebtools.com/secret/ . Hope it helps.