Password protecting a directory and all of it’s subfolders using .htaccess

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It’s a simple two step process

In your .htaccess put

AuthType Basic
AuthName "restricted area"
AuthUserFile /path/to/the/directory/you/are/protecting/.htpasswd
require valid-user

use http://www.htaccesstools.com/htpasswd-generator/ or command line to generate password
and put it in the .htpasswd

Note 1: If you are using cPanel you should configure in the security section “Password Protect Directories”

EDIT: If this didn’t work then propably you need to do a AllowOverride All to the directory of the .htaccess (or atleast to previous ones) in http.conf followed by a apache restart

<Directory /path/to/the/directory/of/htaccess>
      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
      AllowOverride All
</Directory>

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