Customers commonly want to create sections of their web sites that are password protected — so only authorized users can access specific pages, downloads, or other content.  In most cases, setting this up requires some technical know-how and messing with “htaccess” and “htpasswd” files — in general, it can be a pain to do it “manually”.

LuxSci has a web site password protection tool integrated into its web site management console.  Use of this tool makes password protection and management of the users (and user groups) very simple.

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LuxSci’s web site control panel now enables administrators to easily define users with passwords and user groups for managing access to their web sites. Administrators can use this interface to specify which users and/or user groups have read-only and/or read-write access to any directories in their web sites. Different web site directories can have different access controls.