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Authorizing Any Valid UW NetID

Summary

Follow these step-by-step instructions to password protect your Web site such that only people with a UW NetID can get in.

To provide access to anyone with a valid UW NetID:

  1. Log in to your Homer or Dante account with Tera Term or another terminal emulator.

  2. Press the O key for Other, then press the W key to drop into the Web development environment.

  3. At the prompt, enter the following command to change directories to your Web directory:

    cd public_html

    If you want to protect a subdirectory rather than your whole Web site, change directories to the subdirectory you want to protect. For example:

    cd private

  4. At the prompt, enter the following command to create a .htaccess file in the current working directory:

    pico .htaccess

  5. Add the following text to this file:

    AuthType UWNetID
    require valid-user

    To the Web server, valid-user has special meaning. In this context, it refers to anyone who can enter a valid UW NetID and password.

    Tip: This will allow any UW NetID (including group accounts and temporary IDs) to access your Web site. To restrict access further to only specific affiliations, for instance students or faculty, see Authorizing UW NetIDs by Affiliation Type.

  6. Save the .htaccess file (in Pico use ^X).

  7. You're done! Confirm that password protection is working by opening your Web site with a Web browser.