Joomla: Protect your website with a password
With Joomla you can protect individual areas with a password, but you can also password-protect the entire Joomla page. We show you this in our instructions.
Password protection: Protect the Joomla website with htaccess
With the help of two small text files, you can easily protect an entire website directory with a password. When a user calls up the Internet address, a small window opens in which he has to log in.
1. Create a Joomla directory protection with a password
With an online generator you can create the required files htaccess and htpasswd in just a few steps:
- Open the online generator to create the files.
- Fill in the fields with the path of your directory, a user name and a password. Enter the path of your Joomla page as the path.
- After filling in the fields, click on "Create Htaccess & Htpasswd files"
- The corresponding lines are now displayed. Copy them one by one. To do this, open the editor and copy the 4 lines of "htaccess" into a file and save the individual line under "htpasswd". Save the files individually under this name.
2. Copy Htaccess files to the server
After you have created the two files with the editor, you must upload them to your server. You can do this via FTP using the Filezilla program. Read here how to set up your FTP server in Filezilla.
- Load the two files htaccess and htpasswd on your server into the corresponding directory on your Joomla page. Make sure which directory you have specified in the online generator.
- After you upload the files, rename them. The htaccess must be called ".htaccess" and the corresponding ".htpasswd".
- Go to your Joomla page. A dialog should now appear, in which you must first enter the login data.
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