cPanel: Password Protect Directories, protect your Intellectual Property!
Sunday, July 8th, 2007What is a password-protect-directory?
In layman’s terms, it’s simply to restrict access to it with username and password.
Why is this important?
For adsense publishers, this may not be that important,
but for affiliate marketers who gives products and for product owners,
you should REALLY know this like the back of your end!
Just imagine that you’ve spend months after months coming up with product bonuses or your own sellable product and you’ve set up the site and other management softwares to sell this product. Now imagine because you didn’t protect your directories, some one comes along and just happen to chance upon your download directory and that person now have full access to this download directory.
All these can be prevented by simply using the password directory.
If you go to your cPanel and click on “Password Protect Directories”, you’ll be able to see a list of all the folders in your hosting account.
All you need to do is to click on your desired directory and key in the password when prompted to.
See it’s so simple and easy to implement!
By taking a few simple steps, your product downloads are more insured.
Of cos, I understand that the product buyer may pass your password around, but at least we covered the holes that we can cover.
More of such series coming up! Stay tuned.
Sorry for not being able to blog that often.
Rather busy recently lar… hahahaha…
Take care & stay healthy!
Cheers,
Ming Chern