Hello everyone!
Here's what I want in few simple steps.
1) I am developing a site and I do not want anyone to see it - that is why I have secured it with a password using htaccess.
2). I created a welcome screen' - single page with 'cooming soon' etc. and I want only this page to be available to everyone - I managed to get this working as well.
3). Name of this page is index.html and I want it to display when
someone visit my site.
this is how my .htaccess looks like now:
Code:
<Directory "/var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs">
<Files index.html>
order allow,deny
allow from all
Satisfy Any
</Files>
AuthType Basic
AuthName " "
AuthUserFile /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/pd/pwd
require valid-user
</Directory>
At the moment, when one type
http://www.mydomain.com/index.html -> the page is displayed to the user and it does not ask for password (exactly as I wanted). BUT - when one type
http://www.domain.com - then it asks for the password.
I though that when you type just the domain name, the directory index is displayed - index.html in this case - index.html is not password protected so why it keeps asking for password?
Basically, I want both
http://www.mydomain.com and
http://www.mydomain.com/index.html to be unprotected (and other files and directories protected).
How I can achieve this?
Many thanks!
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