Posted on Sunday, 31st May 2009 by Balazs

Authentication in Apache is done through htaccess, either from the configuration file, or from the .htaccess file in a given directory. Note that only full directories can be easily protected with this method.
Here is how: (first log in to the shell, as this method only works if
you have shell access)

$ cd …/html/protected_dir

$ cat > .htaccess

AuthType [...]

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