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Authorizing UW NetIDs by Affiliation Type

Summary

You can password protect your Web site to restrict it to people with the appropriate Affiliation, such as students only, faculty only, etc (see the UW Affiliation Reference for all the possible UW affiliations associated with authorization).

Instructions:

Follow these steps to restrict access to a Web site to affiliations of type "student". For other affiliation types, just replace "student" with "faculty", "alum", etc.

  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 password 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 type student

    You can also combine multiple affiliations. For instance, to allow only faculty and students access, use:

    AuthType UWNetID
    Require type faculty OR student

  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.