Hi i have a website that i use a .htpasswd thing on to protect my directory but is there a way to make this look better?
https://prnt.sc/r3Dk5iUMOZKw
No, this is a native browser component that you cannot modify. You can build your own password protected page to access your directory but it is a whole another story.
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I am building my personal website using Jekyll and hosting it at github-pages. I would like to have a password protected area (just password protected directory, not the whole website). I have tried a few options and tricks to get htaccess to work but failed.
I would like to know if someone managed to use htaccess, or any other method, to protect a directory on github-pages.
Listing solutions which did not work for me (or I failed to get them to work):
*Flohei.
*Jeremy Ricketts.
GitHubPages (like Bitbucket Pages and GitLab Pages) only serve static pages, so the only solution is something client side (Javascript).
A solution could be, instead of using real authentication, just to share only a secret (password) with all the authorized persons and implement one of the following scheme:
put all the private files in a (not listed) subdirectory and name that with the hash of the chosen password. The index page asks you (with Javascript) for the password and build the correct start link calculating the hash.
See for example: https://github.com/matteobrusa/Password-protection-for-static-pages
PRO:
Very simple approach protecting a whole subdirectory tree
CONS:
possible attack: sniffing the following requests to obtain the name of the subdirectory
the admins on the hosting site have access to the full contents
crypt the page with password and decrypt on the fly with javascript
see for example: https://github.com/robinmoisson/staticrypt
PRO: no plaintext page code around (decrypting happens on the client side)
CONS:
just a single page, and need to reinsert the password on every refresh
an admin could change your Javascript code to obtain the password when you insert it
One option is to use Cloudflare Access to control access at the DNS level.
After setting up a custom domain for your Git pages using Cloudflare for DNS, you can use their Access rules policy to require authentication at the specified url path.
This could still be bypassed if someone is familiar with bypassing DNS blocks.
https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-access/
You can give a try to Jekyll Auth and if you run into troubles, this issue can be useful.
You can use Render to deploy your static Web app. It has a npm package that encrypted your html files and user can not see it in browser. So you can use frontend password validation.
I have a new client who asked me to make 2 websites and no payment so far!
I have the ftp accounts, but he can always close my access and leave me without pay.
Can I upload the CSS to another server of mine and encrypt the link to CSS file?
If yes, can I restrict peoples to see the file if they find the URL to CSS file?
Thank you!
If they are his hosting accounts, then accessing them to tamper with the code for the purpose of disabling his sites without his authorisation is probably illegal.
If he hasn't paid you, you own the copyright. If he refuses to pay you, file a DMCA complaint with his hosting company.
Technological measures like this are futile and unprofessional. Next time use a contract.
This is simple. Same scenario happened to me, and what I did was added an new index.html which was an under-construction page, and renamed the original index.php as index_to_be.php.
I then added a redirection using htaccess to the new index.html.
The client contacted me straight away and paid up in no time.
If you don't know how to use htaccess, you can simply add a header location value to the top php page.
header("location:index.html");
The best way to do this is to create a simple PHP file that allows you to access, edit and delete files on the server. You can also search for a ready made lightweight ftp script. Place the PHP file somewhere on the server nested in other folders and name it something like temp.php. Now even if the client blocked you access to the server, you can still access, edit and delete files on the server by pointing your URL to temp.php. When you get paid, be kind enough to remove the file. Don't forget to password protect it.
In your PHP file you can use opendir() to read files from a directory, and unlink() to delete files. If all you want to do is be able to delete files, then the script will not take you more then a minute to create.
UPDATE
You can use the following lightweight ftp script that will let you view, edit delete files and also give you the option to password protect it. http://sourceforge.net/projects/pafm/
You could remove the style sheet from the client's site, upload it to one of your servers and embed it from there:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://your.server/styles.css">
however, you will not be able to seriously obfuscate this. One idea that comes to mind is to add a huge number of spaces before the "link" tag to hide it in the source code view.
<link rel="stylesheet".....>
You could also lazy load it using jQuery, but that would disable the style sheet for users who have JavaScript turned off - mostly a no-go.
In the end, no matter what you do, all this will be trivially easy to circumvent. There is no way to reliably keep control over the site in the scenario you describe. Like #thirtydot says, the best thing to do is to send a screenshot instead.
This is probably like trying to kill a fly with a ICBM but...
You could always use a JavaScript to add the link element to the DOM, and run the JavaScript code through a JS obfusticator.
But still, that's hackish, and overkill, and ways you can get the link anyway.
I am trying to create a homepage, which includes hyperlink.
For example, after clicking sth called file1.txt, I should be directed to text file. However, before the file is to be displayed, a box should be popped up asking username and password. Can you tell me how to do it? Thanks.
With plain HTML? You can't.
The simplest way is to use HTTP Basic Auth. The specifics of which depends on the web server software you use. e.g. for Apache: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/auth.html
In a basic HTML web page, how do you make the user have to enter a username and password before they are allowed to download a file?
What is the best way of achieving this on a website, preferably in plain HTML?
This can't be achieved in HTML.
With client side technologies, the best you are likely to be able to achieve is a JavaScript prompt that you use the data from to direct people to a secret URI.
This is something that really should be handled by the web server.
You won't be able to do this with plain HTML. Easiest way is probably to place the protected file in a directory protected by an .htaccess and .htpasswd file.
I agree with David...this can't really be done. Putting up a JavaScript prompt only protects you so far as well...that isn't really secure.
If you are on an Apache server, you could setup a .htaccess file and setup some user authorization options that point at a page which has the link to your download file. A simple implementation would give you 1 user/password combo that you could distribute to your users. The Apache documentation for this may be found here. Unfortunately I'm not really familiar with how IIS handles this sort of thing.
If you don't want to distribute a generic username/password combo to your users, you're pretty much going to be stuck creating a (or making use of an exsitng) user-management system. There are quite a few modules strewn throughout the web, and a simple Google search should bring you to quite a number of tutorials or existing implementations, depending on what you require.
first download phpmyadmin.open the file.click on create login.name it as login.php.then create a new want again name file.php.after you click yes it popout a logon information.enter the usrname you want and password you want
hope this help!
I want some particular urls like "springer.com" to automatically convert to "springer.com.proxy1.mycollege.edu". The second url takes me to springer site through my college library gateway; I am able to access some parts that would otherwise be restricted.
Is there some way to convert the url as above automatically in firefox 3?
Could use your hosts file to trick firefox into looking for springer.com in the right place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file
You can use Greasemonkey for such task.
One way to solve your problem is to run a web proxy like Squid, configure authentication against your campus LDAP directory, and use a Proxy auto-config file to make the browser go through your proxy.