If you have a folder on your website that contains
sensitive or restricted information, you can password-protect it to
prevent unauthorized visitors from seeing its contents. There are
two ways to password protect folders/directories on your website. We
recommend the Folder Password Protection tool in
the control panel for most users. If you are familiar with htaccess
files, you can also edit them manually.
Using the Control Panel Tool
In your PlusMail Control Panel, click on Site Manager. Pick the
directory you want by clicking next to it, then click the protect
button. Follow the on-screen directions to specify usernames and
passwords associated with that directory.
Manual Method
In the directory you want to protect with http authentication,
create or upload a file called: .htaccess
(include the "." before the "htaccess").
Files that begin with a dot are hidden from regular file listing
(ls) commands. To see files that begin with a dot, do a complete
file listing command (ls -al)
In that .htaccess file, have the following 4 lines:
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Description"
AuthUserFile /home/yourID/www/[file]
Require valid-user
For example, if your domain was example.com, then the 3rd line would
read:
AuthUserFile /home/example/www/userlist
Then to create your password file so that its filename matches what
you put as [file] in the .htaccess file. Do this at the Shell
Prompt:
htpasswd -c filename username
For example:
htpasswd -c userlist user1
Then you will be prompted twice for the password. If you just
want to add another user to an existing password file, or change a
password for a user already in the file, then leave off the -c
option. Type "htpasswd" by itself to see all the options.
You can also delete the .htaccess file from the command prompt by
typing:
rm ../www/[directory]/.htaccess
(where /www/[directory] was
the directory that you put the .htaccess file in to begin with).
When using the htpasswd command, if you see an error "Cannot
create temporary file", then create a "tmp"
subdirectory in your home directory with your ftp program or from
the command prompt like so:
cd
mkdir tmp
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