A password-protected directory or area is a folder which may be accessed when a username and a password are typed in, so no unauthorized people may see its content. This option can be used for the primary folder of a specific site or only for a particular subfolder depending on the needs you have. As an illustration, if you are developing a new Internet site and you do not want people to see it prior to it being 100% ready, you need to limit the access to it as a whole, while if you need only some people to be able to access certain files, you can password-protect only a certain folder, while the remaining portion of the site could be seen by everybody. In any case, a “403 Forbidden” error page will appear in the event that the login details the visitor inputs are not correct. Even a direct link to a file won't work given that any folder above it is password-protected.

Password Protected Directories in Shared Website Hosting

If you use any of our shared website hosting products, you shall be able to set up password-protected areas without difficulty even if you don't have any experience with this kind of matters. We've integrated a very easy-to-use point-and-click tool into the Hepsia CP, provided with all accounts, so you will be able to shield any folder within a matter of seconds. You will have to select a domain or a subdomain and the exact folder which should be protected (the main one or a subfolder), and then to input the desired username and password which will be used to access the folder in question later on. Each protected folder will have a padlock icon within the File Manager section, so you will be able to see instantly what content is secured and what's not. When necessary, you may create several different sets of login credentials for the same folder.

Password Protected Directories in Semi-dedicated Servers

Protecting any folder with a password shall be quite simple if you host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account with us. A user-friendly tool, which is built into the Hepsia CP, will allow you to choose the specific folder that you want to secure with a few mouse clicks and all you'll need to type in will be the username and the password that will be used to access it afterwards. You won't experience any complications even if you have not had a website hosting account before, considering that you don't need any previous knowledge or computer programming skills to activate the feature. If you repeat the same very simple steps, you shall be able to create various usernames for the same password-protected area, so lots of people shall be able to access a particular folder with their own login details. You will be able to see the secured folders easily either in the exact same section of the CP or within the File Manager section where you will identify them by their compact padlock icons.