Over the last few years, our websites have been subject to regular attacks. One of the most common attacks was sending bots to repeatedly attempt to login to our admin area. Some of the attacks were severe enough to slow or crash our website.
We've stopped those attacks from happening by creating an additional layer of security for our admin areas.
We keep hackers out of your admin area is to create an additional username and password via a file called htpasswd. That extra password screen prevents the bots from reaching our admin login and has eliminated problems with repeated login attempts.
This tutorial will show you how to do that in three easy steps. Let's get started.
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Published on May 09, 2014 16:45