If you wish to keep some content hidden from the public eye, you are able to enable password protection for a certain folder - either the main Internet site folder or a different one below it. Whenever this feature is turned on, a pop-up shall appear each time a person attempts to open the folder in question or clicks on a direct link that goes a few levels deeper, so login details will be needed for www.domain.com/folder/image.jpg if you have protected the domain.com folder. If the credentials are not valid, a “403 Forbidden” message will appear and there's no way to get around this restriction, so you can be certain that no one will be able to access the secured content. The function can be beneficial in a variety of scenarios - if only some people should be able to see particular files, if you are creating a website and you do not want people to see it before it's completed, and so forth.

Password Protected Directories in Shared Hosting

With the password protection tool supplied with every single shared hosting plan that we provide, you'll be able to protect any content that you have in your account with merely a few mouse clicks. Since the tool is an element of our innovative Hepsia Control Panel, it features the exact same simple interface and you shall not need any special skills to use it. When you check out the Password Protection section, you'll have to choose one of the domains or subdomains which you have inside the account and then decide if the protection should be turned on for the main folder or for a subfolder. Then input the username and the password you want and you shall be all set. A little padlock symbol inside the File Manager section will tell you that a specific folder is password-protected. In the same way you'll be able to add several usernames and passwords for the same folder if you'd like several people to have their own login credentials.

Password Protected Directories in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to set up password protection for any content which you have in your semi-dedicated server account. We've integrated an easy-to-use tool to the Hepsia hosting Control Panel using which you shall be able to activate the feature with several mouse clicks and with no complications, even if you're not quite tech-savvy. You will only need to pick the hostname (domain or subdomain), the exact folder which has to be protected (the primary folder or a subfolder) as well as the login name and password. The protection will take effect instantaneously, so if you try to open the password-protected URL inside your Internet browser, you will have to input the newly created login credentials before you can proceed. You will also be able to give different usernames for the same folder to a number of people, so you will not have to share the same login credentials with anybody. Any password-protected folder will have a little padlock icon inside the File Manager section, so you shall be able to recognize this sort of folders effortlessly.