ISP Config – website password protection

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Sometimes, you must protect your site in ISPConfig with a standard pass or HTTP auth. Here are a few easy steps to do it. I will describe it from the administrator’s view. The manual is for the apache2 server.

  1. login to your server via SSH
  2. cd to web folder the path is in a format like /var/www/[website]/web/
  3. create the .htpasswd file, you can use the htpasswd utility. the command is htpasswd -c .htpasswd [user] you will be then prompted for password
  4. setup right owner and access rights
    • chown [webid]:[clientid] .htpasswd – you can get website id and client id from other files in a folder so just print files ls -la
    • chmod 640 .htpasswd
  5. login to your ISPConfig web interface and go to setting for your site, in option tab add this to your Apache directives
<Proxy *>
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Restricted Access"
    AuthUserFile {DOCROOT}/.htpasswd
    Require valid-user
</Proxy>

Now, after you try to access the website there will be an auth dialog.

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