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The quickest, easiest and safest way of doing this is to use the Basic HTTP Authentication method. Over 80% of web servers on the internet is Apache web server which support this method very well. So if you have an Apache web server, you can easily password protect your web directory and your web site without bothering your web hosting administrator.  

To use this method to password protect your web directory, you need to write two files: .htaccess and .htpasswd. And how to write them? Don't worry, Htpasswd Generator is just the answer.

The first file is .htpasswd, it defines the user/password list. For example, you now have two valid users: Bob with password BBBBBB, and Tom with password TTTTTT. The file may look like this:

Bob:JZ1w.CMkwXdCI
Tom:igFtfTrbpDnTY

To the left of the colon is user name, to the right is encrypted password. You can use Htpasswd Generator to manage your user/password database ,encrypt the password into proper encrypted string and generate the .htpasswd file.

The second file .htaccess must be placed in the directory you wish to password protect, and if you place this file in your web root directory, it will password protect your entire web site. The .htaccess file may look like this:

AuthUserFile /home/loginname/.htpasswd
AuthName Please login first
AuthType Basic
require valid-user

The first line is the full host path to the .htpasswd file. Please note that this is not a URL, and this is not a FTP server path, this is a full host path. The second line is the text that shows in password dialog.

With just few clicks, Htpasswd Generator Wizard will make these two files easily, and then you can use Htpasswd Generator to upload .htpasswd file to the directory defined in the .htaccess file, and upload .htaccess file to the web directory you want to password protect. 

Htpasswd Generator Features

• Easy to use wizard style interface;
• Manage access authorized user/password database and allow you to add, edit and delete user/password record. 
• Generate random login/password series.
• Create .htaccess and .htpasswd files to password protect your web site and web directory.
• Directly upload .htpasswd file to the directory defined in the .htaccess file, and upload .htaccess file to the web directory you want to password protect.