How Do I sercure the Admin part of the site

[Damien001]

Hi, i am totaly new to this and would like to know how to make admin safe?

 

Thanks Damien

[way2savory]

what do you mean, exactly?

 

get the padlock to show in admin? or to password protect it?

 

the only way i could get the admin padlocked was to put my store in htps and use the admin there.

 

To password protect you need to make an htaccess file.

[Damien001]

the htaccess file, will be moving ti to https once we get that running

 

thanks Damien

[way2savory]

AHH, okay.

 

Htaccess goes in the admin directory.

AuthUserFile /usr/local/psa/home/this is the path to your file/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName EnterPassword
AuthType Basic

require valid-user

 

This goes in the directory you specified in the file above.

yourusername:295654tg456

The password needs to be hashed, and you can do it for free here:

http://www.euronet.nl/~arnow/htpasswd/

 

also, save the files as ALL FILES and thre file name IS .htaccess and .htpasswd

 

I hope this helps you out :)

[Damien001]

thanks

[Damien001]

slight problem i am using windwos 2003 for a server and i thinke we not using Apache, if i am not are there anyways, i can use sercure folders but thats a pain as then every time i load a file i will be asked for user name and password

[way2savory]

Use google for windows server htpassword directions. I have never used a windows server, sorry. :blink: