Why to password protect a file directory? Because your online web files and directory can be accessed by anyone with Internet. For example anyone can browse the directory and view the files inside, execute PHP files and download any attachment files inside. Its public access, that’s the problem.

In order to protect your web files from public access, you can either use the .htaccess to limit the user access to particular directory, or use the simple method of password protection for directory. In order to add password protect to existing directory, you need to login Hostmonster cPanel and get to “password protect directories”. Choose the directory that you wish to password protected.

Beside using password protection to safeguard your website and online files, you should choose the best file permission setting and allows access to authorized personal only. Prevent Internet group user from accessing your files directory, make changes to files, or execute files, all these are the preventive measure to block hackers or potential site altering. Web hosting account’s public_html folder and its files are often set with file permission 755 which prevent public write permission and this block any alteration made by Internet users.

Choose the secure web hosting plan, and make the right configuration. Password directory help you to add another layer of lock and prevent unauthorized access to your personal or private files in the online web server.

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“This option will allow you to require a username and password to access a folder or folders from the web. This can be very useful when you need to limit access to a certain part of your site.“

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“Frontpage Extensions allow you to publish your site directly from the FrontPage application. This means that you will not have to upload files through FTP, or another method.

Warning: Installing or uninstalling Frontpage Extensions will result in the loss of all .htaccess files in your web area. Any changes you have made to your “.htaccess” files will be lost. Any directories you have protected with WebProtect will become unprotected until you reprotect them.“

You can have clear statistic showing the hourly, daily, or monthly web traffic and patent to your website. You can learn where the visitor came from, what search keyword they used to get to your website, and which page of the website are they viewing, and lots more details are logged and display in statistic format.

When you access to hostmonster cpanel and go to cron jobs section, you can see these message.

“Cron jobs allow you to automate certain commands or scripts on your site. You can set a command or script to run at a specific time every day, week, etc. For example, you could set a cron job to delete temporary files every week so that your disk space is not being used up by those files.”

“Warning: You need to have a good knowledge of Linux commands before you can use cron jobs effectively. Check your script with your hosting administrator before adding a cron job.“

“This is a web interface to the crontab program. It allows you to run commands at any time you specify. Enter the command you would like to run as well as running times.“

At the hostmonster cron jobs section, you can enter the unix command that you can to execute and then set the day time months year to execute these command. Once you are done, save cron jobs and test it out.

From hostmonster cpanel X, there is no .htaccess editor found. so, you will need to edit the .hatccess file manually and upload it to server. Usually when you using php scripts like wordpress or joomla or drupal, the .htaccess file already been provided in those scripts, you only require to upload them to server.

I have this wordpress blog with custom .htaccess file running in server, everything working perfectly fine!