How To Lock a Folder With Htaccess File:

What is a .htaccess file?

The .htaccess file is also known as a distributed configuration file it is used to provide configuration or changes on a directory basis what we mean by directory basis is that the changes that we make in this file apply to a particular document directory, which also means flat any changes that we make will also be applied to the subdirectory....

How To Lock a Folder With Htaccess File:

Now to lock a folder with a .htaccess file we will have to first log in to our hosting account or log into your FTP client if you are using that, once you have logged in find the root directory where your website is hosted. you might be able to see that there is a .htaccess file already available that is because some hosting providers give you a .htaccess file beforehand with some configuration by default....

Steps to Lock a Folder With Htaccess File:

First of all, we need to go to the server’s location where our website files are located once you manage to gain access to this location, we can start creating and modifying the file As you can see in the image below we have used localhost which will act as a web server in my own system, if you are using a live server then you will see that you have to first login to your web server’s cpanel and then you will see a folder called “htdocs” where all the files for your website are located....

Conclusion

Using the above method we can easily password protect a directory in our website, all we have to do is create a folder or directory in our website’s root directory. This folder will be the folder that we want to protect, inside this folder we will create .htaccess and .htpassword file and add the code using the method mentioned above to lock the folder. Feel free to ask anything if you have any doubts in the discussion section of this article....

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