[Schoelle]

Originally Posted by Fready

Sounds interesting, please tell me how to do such a thing.

You need a .htpasswd and a .htaccess file.
Check if you can store the .htpasswd file outside the www root folder if possible. This depends on your host.

More information here: http://www.htaccesstools.com/articles/htpasswd/
Or just google for "htpasswd protection"

Setup a different user/password combination than your forum user.

so e.g. your vb admin user is
user: admin
password: vbulletin123
then choose this for your htpasswd protection:
user: techguru
password: methinks
Don't use the same login because then it is useless!


The .htaccess file goes into the /admincp folder (note the leading '.' which is important to hide the file)
The .htpasswd file goes in the best case outside of the folder that is accessible from outside. But you can also store it in the /admincp folder. (also note the leading '.')


Why doing this? If someone gets hold of your admin login then they still cannot login into your admincp!
You can / should do the same with the /modcp folder. But setup a different user / password combination there.