How can protect areas of my webspace with a password?

Answer by: Stuart Pierce, Aplus.Net Knowledge Base Support

The Aplus.Net Control Panel makes it easy to restrict access to individual directories in your web space.

If you would like to password protect your /html directory (or any subdirectory found within the /html directory), you can use the Protect Directories tool.

Here’s how:

Start by logging into the Aplus.Net Control Panel at http://cp.aplus.net using your Registration Number and Customer Password.
Select Web Hosting from the top navigation bar.
Next, select Hosted Domains and click on Manage Hosted Domains.
Now, select the hosted domain name that you’d like to manage.
Click the Protect Directories icon.
Select the directory that you’d like to password protect from the Choose the directory to be protected drop-down menu.

In the Add a username… dialogue, enter a Username and Password for this directory. Click Add User when finished. You can repeat steps 6 and 7 for all of the users of this directory.

You can use the Manage Protected Directories section to remove Users or the entire Protection. Select the particular Protected Directory and Users using the respective drop-down menus:

Important: Password protecting a directory will set-up password protection for all of that directory’s subdirectories as well. For example, if you password protect the /html/ directory that contains an images/ and a downloads/ directory, a password will be necessary to access html/images/ and html/downloads/ as well as /html/.

If you would like to establish password protection for a directory other than the html/ directory (or its subdirectories), you will not be able to use the Protect Directories function found in the Control Panel - you will have to create an .htaccess file for that individual directory.

Note: If you have a Windows-based hosting plan, you cannot use .htaccess files.