Easily add .htaccess and .htpasswd to your forums AUTOMAGICALLY with phpaccess.php
 

It is a good idea to always secure your modcp and admincp areas (and any other sensitive areas/directories) in your forum, using .htaccess and .htpasswd, but configuring those files can sometimes be a pain for webmasters. There is a FREE php script called phpaccess, which automatically installs and configures the .htaccess and .htpasswd files for you!

The Apache server lets webmasters manipulate its behaviour through scripts.
Exactly this kind of script is the htaccess-file (usually named ".htaccess") You can define a very wide palette of modifications (such as individual error-pages and stuff like that), but the most-common use of the htaccess-file is probably the possibility to protect web-content from unauthored access. Whenever a client wants to access a page of a webserver-directory, Apache searches for a .htaccess-file in this directory. If this file contains a definition for a password-protected area, Apache sends a notification to the client's browser that opens a window to enter your login/pass - combination. After the correct combination was entered and sent to the server, Apache admits the user. Of course you can start your text-editor and write your .htaccess-file from scratch. The easier way is PHPAccess.

PHPAccess allows you to easily safe a complete directory with all it's files and subfolders of your Website against unallowed access.

• It offers an intuitive and easy-to-use user-interface that displays current information and possible actions on one page.
• PHPAccess safes every file in the directory it lays in. Not only scripts/html-pages, but also graphics, textfiles,... whatever.
• You don't have to know anything about the complex unix-htaccess-system nor do you have to create the .htaccess- / .htpasswd-files
• PHPAccess does this job for you.
• You even don't have to know the absolute path to your website - PHPAccess finds this information automatically.
• With PHPAccess you can add, modify and delete the users that have access to your data.
• All you have to do is upload the PHPAccess-file, give it the correct file-permissions (via ftp-proggie) and start PHPAccess in your web-browser.

PHPAccess is FREE and published under GPL

ADVANTAGES

• Intuitive user-interface
• PHPAccess is free
• 1-2-3 - Installation
• PHPAccess consists of only one single file!
• PHPAccess can handle existing htaccess-configurations.
• You don't have to upload anything, once PHPAccess is installed.
• You don't have to know anything about server-interna.
• Everything you need for PHPAccess is a webspace-account with PHP and FTP-Support (to upload the file and change the permissions).
• PHPAccess is multilingual. Supported languages:
  - English
  - German
  - Traditional Chinese (BIG-5)
  - Brazilian Portuguese
  - French
  - Italian
  - Spanish
  - Japanese (EUC-JP)
  - Dutch
  - Arabic

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