How to Password protecting your development site with .htaccess or .htpasswd?
It is very simple just follow below instruction:
Step 1 :
Create a .htaccess file and upload to your server to the root of your dev site with the following content:
AuthName “Authorisation Required”
AuthUserFile “/path/to/.htpasswd”
AuthType Basic
require valid-user
ErrorDocument 401 “Authorisation Required”
N.B. : If .htaccess file already exists then you can add the above code on the top.
Also note that omitting ‘ErrorDocument 401 “Authorisation Required”‘ line can lead to 404 error.
Step2 :
Create and upload the .htpasswd file to ‘AuthUserFile’ path with the following content:
tigeranwar:$apr1$8xNFfAZO$okeuxEVCJbaJoFGFdzQ1A/
N.B. : Where ‘tigeranwar’ is the username and ‘$apr1$yB1.9vIT$IVVBmq5vMauwsNR8CZdHQ.’ is the MD5 encrypted password of ‘shafin123’.
You can generate password from below link location:
http://www.htaccesstools.com/htpasswd-generator/
If you face any problem just reply me.