Comments on: Protecting Your WordPress Admin Panel From Hackers With .htaccess

By: abhi

abhi — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:04:11 +0000

Thanks for the good info, it wil protect WP

By: khokon

khokon — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:26:05 +0000

is it possible in joomla?

By: john.s

john.s — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:37:31 +0000

Examples like /var/path/.htpasswd are for Unix-like systems (Linux).

This only works on Linux and Unix-like systems, it DOES NOT work on Windows.

By: john parsons

john parsons — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:53:48 +0000

Trying to set up a password protection with .htaccess, can find no clear instructions of correct path in AuthUserFile. Is the following style of path correct

/c:/Program Files/Apache…..etc

every tutorial gives examples such as
/var/full/web/path/.htpasswd
or
/home/file/….

which make no sense to me.

Thanks

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:14:48 +0000

@JasonS: This refers to Wordpress.org, which is the actual CMS software. You are thinking of Wordpress.com, which is a free hosting service built around the Wordpress.org CMS. So no. Most free blog hosts will not allow you to mess with .htaccess.

By: John

John — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:13:13 +0000

Do you mean Wordpress.com? If so then you won’t be able to do this.

By: JasonS

JasonS — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:24:04 +0000

This may be a stupid question, I don’t know. I recently signed up for a new Wordpress account. The blog is hosted on their server. I didn’t download anything or install it on my web server. So, is any of this necessary?

By: John

John — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:47:48 +0000

This is great advice. It should be pointed out, however, that not everyone has access to create a .htaccess file with password. Many hosting services don’t give their users this kind of access.