HOW TO PASSWORD PROTECTED A FOLDER FROM .HTACCESS

Posted on by Seemab Saleem

To protect a folder from your website, you can actually use the htpasswd feature available within the server.

To create a password protected folder to /home/user/public_html/images with user named admin, run the following command.

[root@server ~]# htpasswd -c /home/user/public_html/.htpasswd admin
New password:
Re-type new password:
Adding password for user admin
[root@server ~]#

Then, add the following code to your .htaccess file located at your public_html folder.

AuthUserFile /home/user/public_html/.htpasswd
AuthName "images"
AuthType Basic

Now, access your folder with the given credential.

You can also password protect a file in Linux, check the steps here.