Question

I have a new website I’m working on that the client wants to keep a secret, but at the same time, I want to put an under construction page with some info on it. I would like to have everything except index.html require a user/password–index.html would be available to everyone.

I have the following, but I’m not sure what I need to add:

AuthName 'Restricted Area' AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /path/to/file/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile /dev/null require valid-user 

There are too many files and possibly new files to say ‘for this set of files require a user/password’.

I think it has something to do with something similar to:

<Files index.html> order deny,allow allow from all </Files> 

But I’m not exactly sure how.

Answer 1

AuthName 'Restricted Area' AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /path/to/file/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile /dev/null  <Files '*'> Require valid-user </Files>  <Files 'index.html'> Allow from all  Satisfy any </Files>