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THIS PAGE IS NO LONGER VERY RELEVANT - AMAHI HAS PASSWORD PROTECTION AS OF AMAHI 5 RELEASE.

It may apply to other pages/apps.

This guide describes how to password protect your HDA setup pages via HTTP authentication.

Adding the following two files to /var/hda/platform/html/public will add password protection access to your http://hda website.

.htaccess
.htpasswd

Note that this is only basic protection, as http authentication is not encrypted.

Steps to password protection

1.- Start by creating the .htaccess file in some folder you can write. It should contain this:

2.- Then you need to create a .htpasswd file containing the users and passwords

• you can go to a public htaccess/htpasswd generator and copy the contents of what the "And this is what your .htpasswd file should look like..." box has
• or you can use the htpasswd command (first time with -c, subsequent times without the -c), like this

The file should contain one line per user like this: USERNAME:3Ce3F4zRcVf42

3.- Both files should be owned by apache:apache and have 600 permissions, so:

   a.  copy .htaccess and .htpasswd over to /var/hda/platform/html/public/ as root using the cp command in terminal, then:

   b.  enter the following commands:

If you want users to still be able to access http://hda without a password, but require one to CHANGE settings, change <Limit GET POST> to <Limit POST>. They can see everything under the setup pages, but will be asked for a username and password to commit changes. (Warning: annoying)