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Adding Password to your FlipBook

Setting up a password-protected directory in Linux.

If you would like to place a restriction on who to view your FlipBook, you can do so by adding password to your FlipBook.

To do that, you will have to setup a password-protected directory to put your FlipBook.

You would need to create 2 files in a Linux environment: a password (htpasswd) file and a .htaccess file to set up a password-protected directory.

Creating a password (htpasswd) file

These are the steps to follow (please note that you have to do the steps in a Linux environment):

a. Go to your home directory.

b. Type this command: htpasswd -c htpasswd username.

The second htpasswd is the name of the password file. It is recommended that you keep this name.
username is the username that you want to use for password access.

c. When you hit enter, you will be prompted to enter and verify a password.
Just type in any password that you would like to use.
With that, you have created your password file. Now go on to create a .htaccess file.

Creating .htaccess file

These are the steps to follow (please note that you have to do the steps in a Linux environment):

a. Go to the directory that you would like to protect.

b. Create a file called .htaccess in that directory.

c. Inside the .htaccess file, add the following lines:

AuthUserFile full path name
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Password-protected FlipBook

<Limit GET>
order allow, deny
allow from all

require user username
</Limit>

i. The first line is where your htpasswd file is. It would have to be the full path.
ii. The forth line is for you to describe the area or directory on your site that your users are logging into.
iii. The last second line is the username that you would be using to access your directory. It would have to correspond with the username that you have used in the htpasswd file.

Putting your FlipBook into the directory

After setting up the password-protected directory, you can now put your FlipBook(OPF file) and the respective files (the folder containing all your respective images, HTML or flp files) into that directory.

When you are done, your FlipBook is now protected by a password.

You may want to view this link as an example of a password-protected FlipBook:

View sample
Username: flip
Password: flip

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