Question

do you guy know what it would be called to require users to input an assigned password in order to view your website? Like this site for example Click. I was thinking that it was .htaccess, but I don’t want to protect any directories. I just want my friends to be able to log into my site without having to change my directory names for security issues.

Answer 1

Apache htaccess sounds like what you need. The site you linked to has a bespoke site login which could be written in PHP or whatever the site is coded with.

It’s trivial to setup Apache to do this though, first create a password with the htpasswd command:

    htpasswd -c .htpasswd dave

Then put this in the .htaccess file:

    AuthUserFile /full/path/to/.htpasswd
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "My Secret Folder"
    Require valid-user