Do you control your admin folder with .htcaccess?

I recently came along a thread at TAZ about adding a .htcaccess file to the admin folder. It controls what IP addresses can access the forum.
(You could probably also do it with an extra username password instead or as an addition)

I was curious to see how many of you guys already do something like that?

 

We do on all of our forums and add the moderators IP to the modcp htaccess as were all on static IPs. I think its handy but not if they have server level access already.

 

the only problem with that is what if your ip changes? when my internet broke i had to get online through my dads computer, and when i finally did come back, my ip changed

 

Edit the allowed IP address through cpanel or via the downloaded file using FTP, if your mods IP addresses always change I certainly wouldnt recommend it then.

 

It is one of the basic principles of forum security to protect your AdminCP and ModCP directories with .htaccess (among other directories).

I don't secure it by limiting it to certain IPs, because I am on-the-go fairly often, so am always using different IPs. I password-protect the directories instead: http://www.adminaddict.net/forum/security-legal-disputes/htaccess-protection-299/

Thread moved to Security and Legal disputes.

 

Change the directories name and password-protect them.

 

Sorry for wrong forum, not sure where it belonged....

Anyways, I was thinking about password protection through htaccess - I have been doing that for files people can download off the server since day one. But I never knew you could do it by IP also.
I personally don't want to enter a password 3 times just to get to an ACP...

 

have them get a no-ip.com account and make a domain and have that be the IP it has worked wonders for me for a few of my members who's ip's change alot...

 

yes, I use .htaccess protection for admin cp.
also if we have static IP, we can allow only a set of IP's to access the admincp ..

 

I did, but I haven't set it up again.

 

When I still used Apache I used the virtualhost directives rather than .htaccess, personally.

 

I use htcacces for our adminCP.

 

hey thanks for your input everyone, appreciate the info @ Metura, great way to comabt the issue of changining IP addresses.

 

Yes I do use a htaccess to protect the admin directory.