Prashant Baldha

<p>Frontend HTTP Authentication Protection provides simple HTTP authentication layer to your  fronend site. There is often need to prevent normal visitors and search engine from navigating front website, when website is in development environment before release website in production environment. This plugin serves this need very well by adding HTTP authentication layer to frontend site. This WordPress Plugin uses HTTP Basic Authentication. This plugin is fully configurable from admin panel.</p>
<h3>Arbitrary section</h3>
<p>Features:<br />
1.Enable Disable Frontend HTTP Authentication<br />
2.Set Custom Username and Password<br />
3.Set Login Message which will display in login dialog prompt<br />
4.Set error content by WYSWYG editor</p>


Frontend HTTP Auth Protection

Frontend HTTP Authentication Protection makes private front part of your website. When web developer like to give demo of website to end client before …

Jesin A

<p>This plugin adds an additional layer of protection for the <strong>wp-login.php</strong> page using <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digest_access_authentication" rel="nofollow ugc">HTTP Digest Authentication</a> with the PHP <a href="http://php.net/header" rel="nofollow ugc">header()</a> function.<br />
So it doesn’t require configuring web server files like <em>.htaccess</em> or <a href="https://websistent.com/tools/htdigest-generator-tool/" rel="nofollow ugc"><em>.htdigest</em></a> and works on all web hosting environments.</p>
<p><strong>Important:</strong> If you already have a plugin which does HTTP Authentication please deactivate it before activating this plugin. Similarly if you have configured your web server to do HTTP authentication on the wp-login.php file please remove it before using this plugin.</p>
<p>If you are using FastCGI PHP this plugin may keep prompting for the credentials even if you enter the right pair, in this case use the following in your <strong><code>.htaccess</code></strong> file</p>
<pre><code><IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
SetEnvIfNoCase ^Authorization$ "(.+)" PHP_AUTH_DIGEST=$1
</IfModule>
</code></pre>
<h4>Advantages of HTTP Digest Authentication</h4>
<ul>
<li>Digest Authentication is very much safer than HTTP Basic Authentication whose credentials can be easily decoded with a <a href="http://www.base64decode.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">base64 decoder</a>.</li>
<li>From Wikipedia on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication" rel="nofollow ugc">HTTP Basic Authentication</a>:</li>
</ul>
<blockquote>
<p><em>The BA (Basic Authentication) mechanism provides no confidentiality protection for the transmitted credentials. They are merely encoded with BASE64 in transit, but not encrypted or hashed in any way.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Digest Authentication on the other hand uses <a href="https://websistent.com/tools/md5-encryption-tool/" rel="nofollow ugc">MD5</a> on the credentials making it “one way” </li>
<li>Uses server and client <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_nonce" rel="nofollow ugc">nonce</a>s to prevent replay attacks</li>
</ul>
<h4>Features of the HTTP Digest Auth plugin</h4>
<ul>
<li>Works using PHP header() function and doesn’t require modification of service config files (like .htaccess, nginx.conf etc)</li>
<li>Supports HTTP credentials for each WordPress user</li>
<li>Clears the HTTP Digest credentials when the user logs out of WordPress (more on this in the FAQ)</li>
<li>Verifies if both the HTTP and WordPress credentials are of the same user (this is the default behavior and can be changed)</li>
<li>Works on all major Web Servers (Tested on Apache, Nginx and Lighttpd)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Plugin Behavior</h4>
<ul>
<li>When this plugin is activated for the first time all WordPress users will have the following Digest credentials<br />
Username: <WordPress username><br />
Password: password<br />
This can be changed from <strong>Users > Your Profile</strong>.</li>
<li>After activating this plugin for the first time you’ll be prompted for HTTP credentials when you logout</li>
<li>Similarly if you change your HTTP username or password you’ll be prompted for this when you logout</li>
</ul>
<h4>Available languages</h4>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>Serbo-Croatian by <a href="http://www.webhostinghub.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Borisa Djuraskovic</a></li>
</ul>
<p>The <a href="https://websistent.com/wordpress-plugins/http-digest-authentication/" rel="nofollow ugc">HTTP Digest Authentication Plugin</a> official homepage.</p>


HTTP Digest Authentication

Protect your wp-login.php page with HTTP Digest Authentication without the need of adding web server modules or changing config files.

Frontend HTTP Auth Protection vs HTTP Digest Authentication