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May 12th, 2010 - Posted by Kent
A user recently wrote asking how she could create password-protected areas of a website "to which individual clients (no more than 50 people) can login and retrieve their lab reports and other such information." We suggested a HIPAA-compliant web host. When she clarified that the clients were, in fact, large animals, we changed our advice. There's an easy way that she, and anyone else, can create password protected areas of a site.
"Password Protect Directories" is offered by web hosts that use cPanel for site administration. The cPanel solution is so ubiquitous we only really mention in a review when a web host doesn't use it (Hostgator, Bluehost, and Hostmonster, all have it). "Password Protect Directories" is found in the "Security" section of cPanel.
You will be asked where the directory is located, and then you will be shown a list of directories. A directory is a folder that your html documents (which make up your web pages) reside in. Choose the directory you want to password protect and you'll see a screen like this:
cPanel Password Protect Security Screen
Enter that info, and you're golden. You can now move files into that directory and only those with the correct login info will have access. Of course, your security is only as good as the passwords that you choose.
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