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November 12, 2009
While it would be nice have my own fancy server, a private server, or a private vm, I really don’t need it. I’ve always opted for shared hosting, because anything else seems like overkill. I currently have a shared plan with Dreamhost and they have served me quite well and meet all my needs. Recently [...]
February 17, 2009
So I recently blogged about using digest authentication instead of basic for securing your wp-admin directory. When implementing this myself, I had it all set up and working on a subdomain. But, I had the authentication directive in the root .htaccess file as well as the wp-admin/.htaccess file. This made it appear to work just [...]
February 11, 2009
I've seen several articles that discuss Wordpress security - just search for it - say that you should password protect the wp-admin directory. You can do this easily with Apache by using authentication directives, which allow you, per directory, to require a valid user name and password from a client before serving up any content. [...]