Password Admin Area

[davidbkoi]

Hi,

 

I am trying to password my admin area. My ISP has told me I cannot use the .htaccess route as I am using SSL.

 

I am using one of the contributions which gave me the instructions below. When I try and access the admin area, a dialog box promts me for a password, which I enter, but it just returns back to the empty dialog box 3 times then gives a no authorisation message. Any Ideas what I am doing wrong?

 

Quick Setup of Admin Authentication.

 

// Open /admin/includes/application_top.php add the following code in

// include authentication user/password of administration

$include_file = DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'authen.php'; include(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'include_once.php');

 

 

// Open /admin/includes/configure.php and add the following code in

// define admin user/password

define('ADMIN_USERNAME', 'admin');

define('ADMIN_PASSWORD', 'mypasword');

 

 

// Save the following PHP codes as authen.php in /admin/includes/authen.php

<?php

 

if(!isset($PHP_AUTH_USER))

{ header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="' . TITLE . '"');

header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized');

echo $SERVER_NAME . ' Authorization Required.';

exit;

}

else

{ if (($PHP_AUTH_USER != ADMIN_USERNAME) || ($PHP_AUTH_PW != ADMIN_PASSWORD))

{ header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="' . TITLE. '"');

header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized');

echo $SERVER_NAME . ' Authorization Required.';

exit;

}

}

 

?>

[Guest]

hmmmmmm, if your host says you cant use htaccess, then it is time to change hosts as they dont know their heads from . .. .

 

 

anyway you can try the admin access with levels, available in the contribution area. first search on administration in contributions, see if you get what you like

[Sivik]

hmmmmmm, if your host says you cant use htaccess, then it is time to change hosts as they dont know their heads from . ..  .

May be this is windows hosting with IIS instead Apache...