Question

create a directory inside your web root with the following properties

a. Directory name should be your last name ( lowercase )

b. directory should contain an index.html file with your first name, last name and student ID

c. the directory should be accessible via browser by typing labtest.lastName. where LastName is your last name

d. the directory should be password protected using the following credentials:

i. username: firstname ( your first name)

ii. password: lastname ( your last name )

e. the directory should not be accessible for both 101site.net and 102.104.12.12

Answer 1

1) The web of the server depends of the type of webserver you are using. if you are using apache2 it will be "/var/www/html" or if you are using lampp it will be "/opt/lampp/htdocs" if you are using xampp in windows it can be "C:\xampp\htdocs". I am using xampp in windows so I created a directory with my last name in the webroot. I also created an index.html file which contains firstname, lastname and student id

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To password protect the directory we can use ".htaccess" file with an ".htpasswd" authentication file which contains encrypted username and password to protect our directory. the .htaccess file should be placed in the directory and the .htpasswd should be placed out of the directory. After that we should link .htaccess file to .htpasswd for authentication

Code:

.htaccess file

.htpasswd can be generated online

After linking the files, we can successfully authenticate to our directory

To block our site access to both 101site.net and 102.104.12.12 we can restrict them through .htaccess file in the directory we created.

We use htaccess rewrite rules to deny access to the both website and ip address mentioned.