How to password protect the whole CMS MS installation?

[trud]

I am currently running a test site, and need to password protect the site because it is on a live server.
How can I easily make all pages password protected?

Also I need to make sure crawlers and spiders do not crawl the site.... there is a "NO BOT" statement to put in a text file in the root I belive, but if someone could refresh my memory on this also.

Trud

[mahjong]

Editing the robots.txt file won't garantee you robots won't crawl your test site.

The only secure way is to password protect the directory containing your test site with Apache's .htaccess and .htpasswd configuration files.

Here's one quick tutorial...

[trud]

At the moment I have IIS and windows hosting. Do not know yet if I am able to run apache rather then IIS cause I am on a shared box.
Tried to make it work under IIS but it seems unpossible.

Other things that will work in wonodws hosting?

[Dr.CSS]

mind if i ask what you mean by all pages password protected, and why?

[mahjong]

http://www.hostmysite.com/support/dedic ... rdprotect/

If not, maybe this... http://www.15seconds.com/issue/060119.htm