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Originally Posted by ChristineP
Yes, I want to do the later part of your suggestion, to password protect register.php file. Per your suggestion, I checked our cpanel Password Protect Directories, though this only allows to protect an entire folder. Do I need to move my register.php to it's own folder to acheive this?
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Hi Christine,
Try this... go back to your cPanel --> "Password Protect Directories".
1. Click on a Folder Icon (not folder name) to open it, such as: public_html
2. Keep doing this until you get to the lowest possible folder that contains the file you want to protect, such as: register.php
Add the folder protection to that lowest sub-folder. Go back to your web site via FTP and download the new .htaccess file that was added to that lowest sub-folder you just protected.
In the .htaccess file will be text such as:
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted Access"
AuthUserFile "/home/[username]/.htpasswds/public_html/passwd"
require valid-user
Next, you will need to modify the .htaccess file so the protection applies to a single specific file using the <files> tags, as follows:
<Files [filename]></Files >
To protect the file "register.php", you would modify the .htaccess statement as follows:
<Files register.php>
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted Access"
AuthUserFile "/home/[username]/.htpasswds/public_html/passwd"
require valid-user
</Files>
Preferably, test this on a test site, or a less important file, before taking it live.
Robert