How To Password Protect a Website Page With .htaccess on Apache WebServers

As you might know, a website or webpage can be easily password protected from unauthorized access through several methods, easiest being the login screen where users need to enter their valid login credentials before they can access any page in a website. But in this case users can still easily access resources like images, scripts or other non-executable files from your site. If you want to password protect some particular webpage or directories or some specific urls within your site then the strongest protection to your webpage is the server side authorization by .htaccess.

Create a .htpasswd file in your Apache WebServer

Top 5 Security Checks for your Website

Today just building up a website doesn’t help until you know how you can manage it. So before your website is getting into limelight, just be sure that you know how to fight hackers and spammers.

Here are the top 5 security guidelines for you to make your environment more secure and not letting it in the evil hands.

7 Tips To Protect Your MySpace Account Hacking

Today social networking platform has been very interesting. Ya, both for users and hackers. Being Open Social environment, Social Networking sites had always been a preferred choice for novice hackers to try out some cool, or should I say ugly, hacking techniques. Being in a risk prone media, you are the one who is responsible for your security. So here are some useful guidelines to keep yourself safe across all these.

Noindex Meta Tag - Prevent Search Engines from Indexing a Page in your Site

So you want to hide a page in your website from the Search Engines. This can be easily done by just adding a Meta tag in the head section of the page which you don’t want to be indexed by the Search Engines. In this way you will be telling the robots (Search Enignes) not to crawl that page and not to store it in their search database. For this that page in your site will not show up in any search results and users will not be able to find that page through searching in Search Engines.

How to prevent directory browsing on your Website or Blog

Directory browsing means users can browse the directories of your website or blog. They can see you directory structure can browse that. It means all your directories are open to them and they get a clear idea about your website structure and different folders. This can be a security risk for your site. Suppose users can visit your images directory, your css or js directory on their browser. For wordpress users can see the wp-content directory, the themes, plugins directory. This is not good for your security.

Yahoo Filters are Not Working - You Are Loosing Your Mails

Ya, its right. Yahoo! has a mail filtering option, through which they say that you can take different decisions on your mails as per your choice. You can move different mails from different addresses to different folders, you can forward some mails. You can filter them on basis of sender address or subject, or even through content. Thats all they say. But recently this feature is not available with the new Yahoo! mail and they request to access that interface through their old Yahoo mail Classic. But they assure that any changes made there effects on new mail system also.

Creating .htaccess in Windows - Renaming a File With No Filename

For having anything on the web we need .htaccess file for full control on our servers and folders. But who are using Windows, you always have found much trouble in renaming a file to .htaccess. Windows gives an error that file can't be renamed as it has no file name. It only consists the extension. Windows doesn't support this type of files. But in Linux you can easily do it.

More results from 26,000 hacked MySpace accounts passwords and emails

Previously I wrote about the most common passwords that people use in their MySpace accounts. Read the article here.
Here are more details about the analysis of those 26,000 Hacked MySpace Account.

MySpace user's Age Analysis