Password Protect Files And Folders

You can restrict access to certain files and directories on your website using htaccess.

First, you can password protect one specific file:

Next, you can password protect multiple files using FilesMatch:

In the above example, any files which contain “private”, “protected”, “secure” or “index” will be password protected.

To password protect the entire directory, you would use this:

If you are on your site all day and don’t want to be prompted for a password all the time, you can grant automatic access to any user by specific IP address:

Just replace the above example with your own IP address.