Password lock a web page

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There are several different way to protect a web page on the CVL.  All of these methods depend upon creating a file in the directory that you want to password protect.
 
There are several different way to protect a web page on the CVL.  All of these methods depend upon creating a file in the directory that you want to password protect.
 
This file is called '''.htaccess'''.  Please note that the name of this file starts with a period.
 
This file is called '''.htaccess'''.  Please note that the name of this file starts with a period.
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;There are three ways that people might like to password protect a web page:
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:Single login/password. 
  
 
=Campus Login=
 
=Campus Login=
 
The most common way of password locking the web page is to use allow people to ''login'' using their campus PID / passowrd.  (This is your campus provided login, ''not'' your CVL login.)
 
The most common way of password locking the web page is to use allow people to ''login'' using their campus PID / passowrd.  (This is your campus provided login, ''not'' your CVL login.)
 
For this you must create a .htaccess file that looks like this:
 
For this you must create a .htaccess file that looks like this:

Revision as of 17:23, 11 February 2008

There are several different way to protect a web page on the CVL. All of these methods depend upon creating a file in the directory that you want to password protect. This file is called .htaccess. Please note that the name of this file starts with a period.

There are three ways that people might like to password protect a web page
Single login/password.

Campus Login

The most common way of password locking the web page is to use allow people to login using their campus PID / passowrd. (This is your campus provided login, not your CVL login.) For this you must create a .htaccess file that looks like this:

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