Setting up a Password Protected Staging Site

This is a required for all of our DesignStudio staging sites

With .htaccess it is very easy to password protect a site. The method is called htaccesss password protection or htacesss authentication.

Add this to the .htaccess in the root directory

AuthType Basic
AuthName "Password Protected Area"
AuthUserFile /path/to/.htpasswd
Require valid-user

You only need to change “/path/to/.htpasswd” with the full path to your .htpasswd, usually /home/system user in runcloud for this site/webapps/sitename

Use this as an example

/home/username/webapps/webapplicationanme

Create a new file called .htpasswd which will be inside the root of the site same place as .htaccess and use this to generate the code that will go inside

https://www.htaccesstools.com/htpasswd-generator/

for username use client name and password staging.

and that should be it!

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Password Protected Staging

Setting up a Password Protected Staging Site

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