w3easyProtect
Web Directory Protection
2011-11-08
It's not that hard to set up a folder protection on the Apache server manually, but it takes time and the more often you have to do it the more it becomes annoying. Till this day: From now on the w3easyProtect script enables you to protect any folder resp. directory on your webspace with the secure server sided .htaccess password protection in only some seconds. Just select the directory you want to protect and the w3easyProtect script will create the .htaccess file and the .htpasswd file with a crypted passphrase to password protect the folder against access from outside the server.
With the folder selector you select the directory you want to protect, then you choose your username and a password and check the 'protect' button before submitting the form.
If specified in the settings as recommended, there is an overwrite protection, so that you cannot overwrite existing .htaccess files or password files accidentally.
If necessary you may also use the script to edit the .htaccess file or other files on your webspace. However generally we recommend the w3easyEditor or the w3easyAdmin tool to edit or handle files and folders more convenient.
The w3easyProtect configuration is comfortably administered online.
2011-12-31
Unfortunately there was a mistake in the manual concerning how to chmod the files and folders. It is corrected now. This is how it works generally: To make a file writable, chmod the file to 664 or even 666, to make a folder writable, chmod the folder to 775 or even 777.
2 Comments
admin w3easy
2012-01-27, 14:12:51
@Boavi: Go to the page 'Get it' (see navigation menu above) and read the 'Free Scripts' chapter carefully and 'til the very end!
...;)
Boavi
2012-01-27, 13:08:35
I would like to try it, it seems very good. But I can't find the download link... Where is it?
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w3easyNews
2012-05-09
Btw: Our directory protection script 'w3easyProtect' has got several 5/5 ratings at HotScripts. Not too bad. There must be some experts out there...;)
2012-05-03
Finally the 3. note in the php.net article about the chmod function solved the 'chmod' problem concerning the editor resp. the admin tool. The $_POST chmod value, that is first given as string, has to be transformed to an integer by the octdec() function. Basically not that difficult. Hmmm...
Many Thanks, MethodicalFool...;)
2012-03-30
Hmmm... Ok, we have not changed the server yet. But this will happen next week, for sure!!!
