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[banepa Friend banepaJoin date: September 2011Posts: 109Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 23 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

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I have Joomla 1.7 in the root of my domain.
I need to password protect the whole site during development and easily remove the password protection once in production.

I was curious if anyone has used any script or techniques to do so.

I read and tried a technique using .htaccess and .htpassword
But it game me a 500 error after entering username and password.

Any suggestion will be appreciated.

[pavit Moderator pavitJoin date: September 2007Posts: 15749Downloads:199Uploads:2274 Thanks: 417 Thanked: 4028 times in 3778 posts]

#439387

You want protect the administrator page ? to make it unreachable ?

[TomC Moderator TomCJoin date: October 2014Posts: 14077Downloads:58Uploads:137 Thanks: 948 Thanked: 3155 times in 2495 posts]

#439390

<em>@banepa 302000 wrote:</em><blockquote>I have Joomla 1.7 in the root of my domain.
I need to password protect the whole site during development and easily remove the password protection once in production.
</blockquote>
Within your Global Configuration section of your site, simply designate –> Site Offline: “Yes”

You can then even type in a custom message that will appear. when anyone tries to bring up your site (without the access information). The access information – i.e. username/password – is the same you use to get into your site administration.

[pavit Moderator pavitJoin date: September 2007Posts: 15749Downloads:199Uploads:2274 Thanks: 417 Thanked: 4028 times in 3778 posts]

#439393

Hi

If you want protect your site take a look at this extension i have used it and is a good thing to install on your site.

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