I only want to password protect one file in a folder. How can I do this with .htaccess?
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A:
Let's say you want to password protect your secret.html file. Just create a .htaccess file in the same folder as the secret file, with the following content (you may need to customize some values according to your config:
<Files secret.html>
AuthName "Login"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /html/username/.htpasswd
require valid-user
</FilesMatch>
You can also use wildcards to filter some file types only. Imagine you want to password protect all zip files:
<FilesMatch "*.zip">
AuthName "Login"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /html/username/.htpasswd
require valid-user
</FilesMatch>
rogeriopvl
2010-04-05 22:46:16
Do you now how to do the opposite? That is exclude one or two files from the password protect?
Brian
2010-04-05 22:48:40
you need to have some criteria in order to use wildcards. For instance, imagine you want to password protect all .zip files: <FilesMatch "*.zip"> every other file will be unlocked.
rogeriopvl
2010-04-05 22:54:59