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#14336 Insert a "new" .htaccess in administration folder

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Latest post by nicholas on Monday, 10 December 2012 11:34 CST

Monday, 10 December 2012 11:04 CST

user39895

Mandatory information about my setup:

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Joomla! version: 2.5.8
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Admin Tools version: 2.4.3

Description of my issue:

I would like to insert an htaccess htpasswd setup to my www.domain.com/administration folder. If I only "instititue" the use of this setup in the folder, will I loose everything setup by the htaccess in the root folder of the site? I just want one more way to make it difficult for someone to get to the administration folder.

 

Thank you,

Ryan

Monday, 10 December 2012 11:19 CST

nicholas

Hello Ryan,

You can use Admin Tools' "Administrator Password Protection" feature. It adds a .htaccess and .htpasswd file in your site's administrator directory. It doesn't repalce the .htaccess in your site's root – this would be wrong and extremely unnecessary.

Answering your question, remember that .htaccess files "cascade". The options from the .htaccess in your site's root are "inherited" by the .htaccess file in each subdirectory. You don't lose any protection with the method you are intending to implement. On the contrary.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Monday, 10 December 2012 11:31 CST

user39895

Good point on the Password Protection. I should have realized that is how it is done. My plan was to just manually add one to that folder, but I wasnt sure about the cascading effects of the root htaccess. Wanted to make sure I did not overwrite something from that root file, because I am very happy with it.

Thank you for the input. Sweet product that will be a standard for all of my sites.

Monday, 10 December 2012 11:34 CST

nicholas

You're welcome :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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