I can offer a short tutorial on how to password-protect the X3 entire website:
1. Open the root ".htaccess" file in any text editor, and paste the below anywhere into the document.
AuthName "Restricted Area"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /var/path/public_html/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
require valid-user
to reflect your servers document root. To figure out your servers
document_root, go to your X3
check page, and scroll down to find the "document_root". For our demo website, the document root is /var/www/x3/demo, and therefore we would use:
AuthUserFile /var/www/x3/demo/.htpasswd
It will be different for your website naturally.
3. Create a username and encrypted password. Because the password needs to be encrypted, you need to use the following utility:
http://www.htaccesstools.com/htpasswd-generator/
Simply input your username and password, and the tool will output an encrypted string for you. Copy the outputted string, which may look something like this:
username:$apr1$/J7F2ML7$S5p/dolWLBs7PJFIirYR80
in your X3 root folder.
5. Open the new ".htpasswd" in any text editor, and paste the encrypted string. Save.
Your website should now have industry-standard password protection!
* If you for some reason require multiple usernames and passwords, you can repeat step 3, and simply add additional logins on new lines in your ".htpasswd" file. In the example below, we have three usernames with their correlating encrypted passwords:
username:$apr1$/J7F2ML7$S5p/dolWLBs7PJFIirYR80
batman:$apr1$BhIgniP8$2fSXkeDMpO0M6gUuLw1FW.
robin:$apr1$10/8UsXJ$oHYgz9gt1R3igWug1Mdb1/
