Restricting Access to Content
Demo Video: Learn how to restrict access to a site directory with a password and add authorized users.
If you want to limit public access to specific areas of your website, you can secure them with a password using the “Protected Directories” feature. It allows you to designate certain directories of your website as “password protected”. Anyone accessing such a directory or any directories and files inside it will be presented with a challenge, and will need to provide a correct username and password to view the protected content.
To protect a directory with a password, follow these steps:
If you decide to change the directory’s title, follow these steps:
Before anyone can access the protected directory, you need to add at least one user to it. This user will only have access to this specific directory, and not all of the domain’s protected directories. Every time you secure a directory with a password, you need to add a user, otherwise nobody would be able to access it.
To add a user to a password-protected directory, follow these steps:
If you decide to change a user’s password, follow these steps:
If you decide to remove a user entirely, follow these steps:
Keep in mind that unless there is at least one user associated with a password-protected directory, no one can browse that directory and its contents.
If you change your mind and decide to remove password protection from a directory, follow these steps:
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