Website directory password protection by .htaccess

This tutorial will help you to create directory protection for your website folder.

Lets assume that your website home path is /home/mypath/  and you want to use ‘website’ as username and ‘password’ as directory password:

Step 1: Go to your server by SSH and in command prompt type following command:

$ htpasswd -c /your/mypath/.htpasswd website

put your password that you want to use for directory protection, in this example it is `password`

Step 2: go to your website .htaccess file and paste the following code in the top.

AuthType Basic
AuthName "Authorised access only"
AuthUserFile /home/website/path/.htpasswd

Save and you are done.