Comments on: A simple way to password protect your Magento store

By: C.J.

C.J. — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:23:56 +0000

I had the same problem as greg, though oddly it only asks for the auth repeatedly in firefox. safari and chrome work fine. Not the end of the world but it is weird

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:08:25 +0000

Hi,

I am using the multiple website setup with subdirectories and I have been successfull at protecting my subdirectory, but I am constantly prompted multiple times for the username/password as I navigate the store. For example, if I go from the root of my store ‘/store1/’ to the cart page ‘/store1/checkout/cart/’ I am prompted again. Why is this if I setup the authentication at my store’s root level?

By: Ashley

Ashley — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:22:03 +0000

It is posible to only protect subdirectories – I assume the stores are
accessed as subdirecories? Or are they subdomains?

I had a great deal of trouble (and eventually gave up) trying to
‘unprotect’ a particular subdirectory. In reverse though it should be
easy, just only restrict access on a particular directory or
subdomain.

Let me know a bit more about your config and I could post a howto for it.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:09:37 +0000

Do you know if there is way to password protect a single store within a web site?

For example, if we have the following structure

Website
- Public Store
—- English Store View
—- French Store View
- Private Store
—- English Store View
—- French Store View

Is there a way to force password access to Private Store?

The problem we’re trying to solve is that we want certain products to be available only to a select group (redirected from another web site). The solution (a bit of a hack) is to set up those products only in the Private Store. We’d like to limit access to Private Store to those who have been given a username/password combination.

Any ideas?