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Password-protect a Subdomain with Plesk

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My design and development business, Boston Web Studio, uses the Plesk Control Panel to manage its web hosting account. While Plesk has served me well for years, it does have one shortcoming that baffles me and many other folks: it doesn’t make it easy to password-protect a subdomain. It does provide an easy way to password-protect directories under the root domain and it also provides an easy way to create subdomains, yet it doesn’t combine these two features; if I want to password-protect a subdomain, I have to do it manually, and that means poking around my web server using a command-line interface.

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Written by Marc Amos

November 18th, 2008 at 11:48 am