Password Protect Apache Directories
This page describes how to password protect a directory on an apache web server. Only a user with the correct username and password will be able to view the contents of that particular folder. You can decide what the username and password is.
![Password Protected Folders](images/password-protected-folders.jpg)
As you can see above there are 2 files of interest:
- .htaccess
- .htpasswd
.htpasswd
This file contains something like..
username:|PaSSwoRD
The username is the literal username and the password is an encrypted version of the password
.htaccess
This file contains something like..
AuthName "Please Login"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /home/mywebserver/.htpasswd
Require valid-user
The first line dictates what the prompt will be