Homepage Password

Homepage Password box 200 200 2014.08 Create a secure password protection for your homepage.

With the Homepage Password program, you create password protection that works independently of the homepage and the browser.

The program creates an .htaccess and .htpasswd file. Copy these two files into a directory in the homepage and the browser will ask for a password.

Htaccess files are server configuration files for directories. Htaccess files always apply to the directory in which they are stored, as well as to all subdirectories thereof and their subdirectories. If you want different rules in one of the subdirectories, you will have to save an htaccess file there in turn. The details of each current file overwrite the details of htaccess files from the directories above.

The password protection consists of the two files:

.htaccess - This file sets the access protection for the directory in which it is located and everything under it.
.htpasswd - This file contains the usernames with the corresponding passwords. All usernames are stored in the htpasswd file with the passwords. The passwords are not stored as text, but rather are encrypted.

For example: [user1:$1$yY1o2ryg$dCncDtwwaaA81xnVSYbjl.]

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Password prompt

No access to the website

The server asks a maximum of 3 times for the password, if the login data was wrong 3 times, then access is denied. This can be due to the following reasons:

Under Options, the wrong server type may be set. (Linux or Windows)
The server distinguishes between uppercase and lowercase, so if the password is secret, Secret, or secreT, these are not all the same password and the same applies to the username.
The server path is incorrect. If the file is not found, every password will be incorrect.
The access restriction (and any other controls via .htaccess) will only work if this option has been enabled by the server's administrator.

Server path

What is the absolute server path to my website?

The server path is the path on the webserver. You can read the server path with the "pfadauslesen.php" file.

1.)	Download the Homepage Password program.
2.)	Save the file "pfadauslesen.php" on the computer and then copy it into the homepage. In the program at Options > Directories. Click on “path_readout.php save under.”
3.)	View the file with www.yourHomepage.com/path_readout.php
4.)	The server path is now shown in the browser.
5.)	Transfer the server path to the program.
	To view it, the homepage has to be PHP-ready.

Server path examples:

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Server path: /kunden/homepages/xx/xxxxxxxxx/htdocs xx : to be replaced by your data. xxxxxxxxx : to be replaced by your data. View the path with “pfadauslesen.php. Or look for a logs directory in the FTP connection and check in the .htaccess file. Line AuthUserFile /kunden/homepages/xx/xxxxxxxxx/ (Attention replace htpasswd with htdocs)

Strato server path: /home/strato/www/wu/www.wunschname.de/htdocs www.wunschname.de = Your domain wu = first two characters

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Server path: /homepages/us/username/ username = Your username us = first two characters in the username

Questions

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Does the password protection work for every operating system?

Yes. The password protection is independent of the operating system.

Does the password protection work for every browser?

Yes. The password protection works in every browser.

Can the password protection be circumvented?

No. All subdirectories are also password protected.

The browser asks for a password and still does not allow access.

The server path is likely wrong and the password protection cannot find the passwords. Thus, every password is incorrect and access is not possible.

Where are the passwords saved?

In the .htpasswd file. This file contains the usernames with the corresponding passwords. The passwords are stored encrypted and therefore can not be read. E.g. user1:$1$y4G7fkxn$qidBOf7hmmxX/.IEyT8Gs0

Internal Server Error 500?

This error message is given by the web server if it can not execute the .htacces password protection. This is mostly because your provider does not allow it to run.

What is protected on the homepage.

If the password protection was copied to a directory, then this directory is protected. All subdirectories from this directory are also password protected.

The program only asks for the password once.

The password is saved by the browser until it is closed. The password is sent again and again to the WWW server. This way it doesn’t have to be re-entered until the browser has been restarted.

Warning: This server requests that the username and password be sent "insecurely (basic authentication without a secure connection)."

This message always appears when passwords are queried over an unencrypted connection (without SSL encryption). If you use the htaccess password protection on an SSL-encrypted website, this message will not appear. The message does not affect the security of password protection. However, if someone is intercepting the connection, the passwords can then be intercepted.

Homepage Password

Operating systems	Version	Size
Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP je 32-Bit & 64-Bit	3,0	2,59 MB

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This free trial version can be used without any time limit. Only the number of users and the password length is limited.

Full version	Price
By entering the activation data, the trial version becomes an unrestricted full version.	€ 18.50 including VAT

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