BrainK Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 Hi, Please if anyone can help me preferably privately to set up the two files .htaccess and .htpasswd Im so worn out from trying this all day long (10hrs!). I was working on my store until I saw on the site here how the admin panel is not secured so I immediately realized I needed to get this done before I continued to work on my store but I didnt think it would cause so much heartache. Ive tried every thing. I have a feeling its probably how the server is written out but Im pretty sure Ive had it correct. I dont know tho ;( Ive given it my absolute best shot but am out of options. If any one would be so kind as to help me privately to set the up the two files. Ive read all the tutorials and posts here but I dont think it would be solved with just posting the htaccess info here. My host is godaddy.com and the only help they offered was in this email that said: If you feel comfortable doing so, you can create an .htaccess file to password protect a directory in your Linux hosting account. We cannot provide instructions or troubleshooting for this, but we can tell you that the tutorials and password generators can be found at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/htaccess.html and your full server path is /home/content/u/s/e/username/html, where 'u', 's', and 'e' are replaced by the first three letters of your hosting username, and 'username' is replaced by your username. Please let us know if we can help you in any other way. They dont have a password protect feature on there own either & the information they gave didnt get the htaccess to work. I do get the log in screen sometimes but the password never works. This could probably take someone whos familiar with this a few min compared to my 10 hour attempt. So please if anyone can help let me know, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djs Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 Hi, Please if anyone can help me preferably privately to set up the two files .htaccess and .htpasswd Im so worn out from trying this all day long (10hrs!). I was working on my store until I saw on the site here how the admin panel is not secured so I immediately realized I needed to get this done before I continued to work on my store but I didnt think it would cause so much heartache. Ive tried every thing. I have a feeling its probably how the server is written out but Im pretty sure Ive had it correct. I dont know tho ;( Ive given it my absolute best shot but am out of options. If any one would be so kind as to help me privately to set the up the two files. Ive read all the tutorials and posts here but I dont think it would be solved with just posting the htaccess info here. My host is godaddy.com and the only help they offered was in this email that said: If you feel comfortable doing so, you can create an .htaccess file to password protect a directory in your Linux hosting account. We cannot provide instructions or troubleshooting for this, but we can tell you that the tutorials and password generators can be found at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/htaccess.html and your full server path is /home/content/u/s/e/username/html, where 'u', 's', and 'e' are replaced by the first three letters of your hosting username, and 'username' is replaced by your username. Please let us know if we can help you in any other way. They dont have a password protect feature on there own either & the information they gave didnt get the htaccess to work. I do get the log in screen sometimes but the password never works. This could probably take someone whos familiar with this a few min compared to my 10 hour attempt. So please if anyone can help let me know, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Most hosts provide for this functionality in their control panel. If others haven't helped you yet, send me a PM and I'll walk you through this. Dan Dan Stevens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrainK Posted April 26, 2005 Author Share Posted April 26, 2005 Most hosts provide for this functionality in their control panel. If others haven't helped you yet, send me a PM and I'll walk you through this. Dan <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Youre the first to respond :) Godaddy doesnt appear to offer any protection. I sent you a pm. Praying we can get it to work. Thanks Dan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrainK Posted April 26, 2005 Author Share Posted April 26, 2005 If anyone else can contact me if they think they can help in case Dan is busy and cant get back in contact with me. I should be up a bit longer tonight but I am starting to get sleepy. I was thinking instant messaging on an instant messenger is best way to communicate to get this to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 sounds like u need to change hosts to where you have a cpanel to do all of this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrainK Posted April 26, 2005 Author Share Posted April 26, 2005 sounds like u need to change hosts to where you have a cpanel to do all of this <{POST_SNAPBACK}> If I had known beforehand, kinda not an option for me financially atm. According to everything I read cpanel isnt needed and the two files can be done manually. Ive used ftp to access and upload my folders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 godaddy support is currently at 11 minutes wait . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrainK Posted April 26, 2005 Author Share Posted April 26, 2005 godaddy support is currently at 11 minutes wait . <{POST_SNAPBACK}> In there email they said "We cannot provide instructions or troubleshooting for this" So they dont help with htaccess :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 htaccess and htpasswd are a web server function, if you go to apache.org you can probably search thru the documentation on the proper setup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrainK Posted April 26, 2005 Author Share Posted April 26, 2005 htaccess and htpasswd are a web server function, if you go to apache.org you can probably search thru the documentation on the proper setup. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ive read pretty much everything relevant. I dont think Im missing anything. Apache is built into the php webhosting as far as I understand. However I just cannot say for certain since all the little details of servers and such arent exactly my forte. Ive read on posts here it was a simple matter of these two files, the coding and uploading and my admin folder for the oscommerce would be secure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wendy James Posted April 26, 2005 Share Posted April 26, 2005 This is a 30 day trial program that writes em for you... haven't tried it but can't hurt to take a look. http://www.html-password.net/ Here is a good tutorial. http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/htaccess/ Hope that helps Wendy James Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrainK Posted April 26, 2005 Author Share Posted April 26, 2005 This is a 30 day trial program that writes em for you... haven't tried it but can't hurt to take a look.http://www.html-password.net/ Here is a good tutorial. http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/htaccess/ Hope that helps <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hey Wendy Thanks for that link Ill take a look at that program tomorrow, my head is in a fog atm from being at the pc all these hours lol. I didnt see that program and I did do a lot of searching on the internet about this topic. I think you were one the people whom I came across on these forums who talked about htacess a lot, I remember because of your icon :) I sure hope in the future oscommerce changes the security of the admin panel somehow. Oscommerce is so wonderful, this one little thing is so important though, because how can you work with the software without that peace of mind. Gonna hit the hay for tonight guys, I was looking forward to becoming a member of the forums before I came across this problem. I think these forums are great and I look forward to participating. Hope tomorrow will be more productive then today and I can get this fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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