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The method described in this document is best if the people
you want to allow to access your web page have WAM accounts.
If they do not, you will need to use the alternate, less
secure method. For a method that limits individual
machines click
here.
To password protect a web page, it must be located in a
password-protected directory. To create a password-protected
directory, use the following steps:
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Change into your pub directory:
cd ~/../pub
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Create a directory for your password protected web
page.
mkdir private
(You can use whatever directory name you like; we have
used the name private)
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Change the AFS permissions on the directory that you
created with the commands:
fs sa private/ system:anyuser none system:httpd
read
This will give the web server read permissions and remove
the world read permissions that your pub directory has by
default.
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Change into the directory you just created.
cd private
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Create a text file called
.htaccess containing
the following (you might type pico .htaccess
to begin creating the file):
UseUMDKrbAuth on
UseUMDHesiodAuth on
AuthType Basic
AuthName WAM.UMD.EDU
<Limit GET>
require user username
</Limit>
(Replace username with the WAM username of the
person you want to give access to. If you used pico to
create the file, save it using control-O, press return, and
then use control-X to exit. If you want to allow multiple
users to access the page, put additional require
user username lines in the .htaccess
file, one for each username.)
That's it! Now, just put the web page you'd like to protect
into the private directory. To access the
page, point your web browser to:
https://www.wam.umd.edu/~yourusername/private/filename.html
(Where filename.html is the name of your
password-protected web page, and yourusername is
your WAM login ID.) Note that this URL begins with
https rather than http.
You should see a small window pop up, asking you for the
username and password. Type in the username and password, and
you'll be able to access the web page.
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