htaccess Site Access Control – WordPress Plugin

Overview

.htaccess Site Access Control

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Using the password protection will give you extra security layer of protection from brute force hacking attacks. Additionally, it’s also an easy way to password protect your entire site, without needing to create separate WordPress users for each visitor.

When you enable the password protection, the user won’t be able to see anything – not even see the protected page – until he/she inserts the username/password. You can password protect the whole website, including the administrator pages; you can password protect the administrator pages; or you can password protect the WordPress login page.

Features

Plugin features include:

• Enabling/disabling the password protection to wp-login.php, WordPress admin pages. Note that you’ll be asked to re-type the .htaccess username/password you created before enabling any of the settings – to ensure that you wouldn’t enable the password protection without even knowing the password yourself! Modifying the existing users: you can change any .htaccess user’s password and remove the users. Note that you have to add at least one user to enable the lock.
• Add unlimited .htaccess users;
• Protect your whole site, making it accessible to only those who have the .htaccess user.
• Whenever the plugin makes a change to the .htaccess file, it stores the previous version in another file — so, in case there is ever a problem, there’s always a backup you can revert to!
• You can view and review the entire .htaccess file (so you don’t need to login via SSH or SFTP to review it)
• You can turn off directory browsing
• You can prevent a classic hack in which the square bracket is used to break the URI.
• You can protect the wp-config.php so it can’t be edited
• You can disable PHP file uploads into the uploads directory
• You can disable the hotlinking of images, for people trying to steal bandwidth from you.

Requirements

• WordPress 4.0 and forward
• PHP5

Instructions

• Upload the folder `htaccess-site-access-control` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
• Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
• From the ‘Settings’ menu, there will be a new option, called ‘.htaccess Site Access Control’