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How To Setup Location Security

How To Setup Password Security

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Limiting access to your Web pages from requesting browsers.

As more information is available over the Web,  security and limiting access to your published Web pages is becoming more desirable.  These limitations may be significant due to publisher's requests, class specific information, or group requirements.  You may limit access to your Web pages by specific location or by password either for your entire Web directory or for particular subdirectories within your Web directory.

When the web server on grove receives a request for a web page in one of your Web directories, it checks for the existence of a file named .htaccess in that directory.  The .htaccess file can contain information that restricts access to the pages in the same directory.  To create the .htaccess file and set the proper permissions, enter these commands:

Note: This allows group and other read but not execute nor write permissions for a specific file.  For further information, refer to the man page for chmod: man chmod.

Use a text editor to place information in your .htaccess file.

IP and Domain Security

Password Security

Password security is used to restrict access to your web pages either by password that you have created and supplied to individuals or through GatorLink authentication.

AuthName "My Computer classes"

AuthName strings MUST be quoted in .htaccess if they contain blank characters (like spaces). For example, if you use an AuthName directive like this: 

       	AuthName This and That
	you will need to change it to: 
 	AuthName "This and That"

If you are interested in further information on security on the apache web server refer to apache.org.