How to limit access to your website with apache2

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To get your apache2 protect a webpage with a password:

  1. have an unprotected webpage that shows up in your browser (I assume it is stored in /home/httpd/prot)
  2. create a .htpasswd file with htpasswd2
  3. create a file named .htaccess in /home/httpd/prot: 
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted Files"
AuthUserFile /home/httpd/prot/.htpasswd
Require valid-user
  1. in your httpd.conf, replace all AllowOverride none with AllowOverride all. Read what AllowOverride is good for (www.google.com).
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