Guest Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 Hello all, I read all the posts on password protecting admin - I asked my hosting provider to password protect my admin folder, but they said they charge ?15.00! for that service... Is there anyway I can password the admin section without paying ?15.00 to them?! thanks, gary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥Vger Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 If you have a web hosting control panel which is half-decent then it will have a Password Protect or Directory Protection feature, which you can use to password protect the admin folder. If your web hosting control panel doesn't have such a feature and you are on a Windows server then you'll have to get your host to do it for you. If you are on an Apache server with either Unix or Linux based operating system then you can use .htaccess to do it for you. Just run 'password protecting with .htaccess' into Google and you'll get myriads of hits. In the meantime you can make it safer by FTP'ing to your site and renaming the 'admin' folder to something unique, and then editing the references (one or two - depending on setup) to /admin/ to /newname/ in admin/includes/configure.php. If a hacker can't find it they can't hack it! Vger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 Thank you, It's a linux server, and I've just got them to give me shell access so i'll give that ago! thanks again, gary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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