Cameron Rangeley

in the configuration file for your virtual host and between the tags you can insert the following lines of code to protect a folder.

AuthType Basic
AuthName “Members Only”
AuthUserFile /path/to/htpasswd
Require valid-user

After you have added that you can save and exit the config file. We now need to create the htpasswd file. from the linux command prompt type in htpasswd -c /path/to/htpasswd username the htpasswd program will prompt you for a password.

Reload apache /etc/init.d/apache2 reload and you are done.

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