{"id":1003,"date":"2009-03-23T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2013-03-07T17:06:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T22:06:44","slug":"how-to-password-protect-directories-and-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/how-to-password-protect-directories-and-files\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Password Protect Directories and Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to designing websites, I am getting requests lately to just manage data for clients.<br \/>\nFor example, shopping cart databases, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/docs\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open Office<\/a> Documents. Some password protected and some not.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have found that the simplest solution is probably the best one.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Htaccess\" target=\"_blank\">htaccess file<\/a> is simple to use and has good security.<\/li>\n<li>Of course, the level of security depends on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/11\/me_on_passwords.html\" target=\"_blank\">how good of a password that you choose<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Because I like to also host my customers sites I know where to go to manage these files<br \/>\nI use cPanel which is free and open source. They make it pretty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpanel.net\/support\/docs\/11\/cpanel\/sec_pass.html\" target=\"_blank\">easy to do<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to designing websites, I am getting requests lately to just manage data for clients. For example, shopping cart databases, Google or Open Office Documents. Some password protected and some not. I have found that the simplest solution is probably the best one. The htaccess file is simple to use and has good security. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[19,23,21,31,17,15],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2943,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/2943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}