Originally posted by hellsatan
Sounds cool DWZ...
Would you tell us how to do it?
Satan OK, I'll tell you the long way, that way it wont matter if you have CPanel or anything :)
Open up a text document, name it stuff.htpasswd don't put a .txt or anything at the end...
In that, put in:Username:EncryptedPassword
Username2:TheirEncryptedPasswordThe password you put in there must be encrypted, if you have no idea what your password is encrypted, this web site will tell you what you need: http://www.euronet.nl/~arnow/htpasswd/
OK, save that file. Now you need to upload it via FTP to your server, but don't put it in a web accessible directory, for example, mine is stored in /home/dwz/.htpasswds/forums/admin make sure you remember where you save it :) Now, once it is uploaded, rename the file to .htpasswd make sure you do this via FTP. Do not try to rename the file in windows then try and upload it... Windows gets confused on files without filenames...
Now, make another, this time called stuff.htaccess in this file, put this:AuthType Basic
AuthName "vB Administrator Control Panel"
AuthUserFile /home/dwz/.htpasswds/forums/admin/passwd
require valid-user
ErrorDocument 401 /error/401.phpNow, you will need to replace /home/dwz/.htpasswds/forums/admin/passwd with the folder you ended up saving your .htpasswd on your web server.
OK, getting close to finished now :) Upload this file to your vB admin CP directory (i.e. /forum/admin). Once uploaded, rename this file to .htaccess Again, do not try and do this in Windows.
OK, now, you should have password protection on your admin cp. When you try and go to your vB admin CP, you should get a box like this: http://bruce-hamilton.com/tmp/ Here, type in the info you placed in the .htpasswd file unencrypted. You can save the password on your computer too if you like. Click OK and you should be taken to the normal vB admin CP login page if you aren't logged in. Or right to the vB admin CP if you are.
OK, well, password protection is set up. Last few steps... Make a web page that you want displayed to people who type the password in wrong. Feel free to use my one, just don't link the images to my site, save a copy and use your space ;):<html><title>ERROR: 401 - Authorization Required - ACCESS DENIED</title><body bgcolor="#000000"><div align=center>
<img src="http://www.consoleradar.com/error/error.gif"><br><img src="http://www.consoleradar.com/error/401.gif"><br><p align="centre"><font color="7D7979"><h1>Authorization Required - ACCESS DENIED</h1>
<h2>Unauthorized access to ConsoleRadar's administration sections detected.<br>What the [better wash my mouth][better wash my mouth][better wash my mouth][better wash my mouth] do you think you're doing?</h2>
An illegal attempt to access our system has been detected from your IP address (<? echo($REMOTE_ADDR); ?> aka <? echo(gethostbyaddr($REMOTE_ADDR)); ?>).
This information has been sent to the webmaster and any further attempts to access our system will result in legal action.</html>
<?php
$email = "you@youremail.com.au";
$time = date ( "Y-m-d-r" );
$message = "
-- message starts-----
This sad, sad person: \n " . gethostbyaddr($REMOTE_ADDR) . " \n Has attempted to access \n $HTTP_REFERER \n Now Go and kick his ass
Site: $refer
Date: $time
-- message ends-----
";
mail($email,"ERROR 403!",
$message, "From:SERVER<server@yourdomain.com>");
?>OK, replace $email = "you@youremail.com.au"; above with the email address you want the IP address sent to and replace server@yourdomain.com for your web site's domain (it doesn't have to be a real email address, that's just the email's return address. Save this as 401.php and upload it to a folder just outside the root of your site called /error/ You don't need to put it there, but it's where I store all my error documents. If you want to have it somewhere else, make sure you change it in the .htaccess file too. Note that you can't put it in a folder that needs a password (like your vB admin CP, or you will need to have a password to access the "you need a password" file ;))
And your done.
Enjoy :D