.htaccess protection for /admin

Question

is it possible to add an extra .htaccess protection for the "/admin" area?

Answer 1

You can use .htpasswd to request another login and password but I suspect that's more annoying than secure.

Answer 2

From my understanding this is not possible, as /admin/ is no folder but a request that is handled by q2a itself.

Comments

Actually the request does go through Apache first so it's possible to block it based on IP address or whatever.

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Ah true, first htaccess which routes to q2a's index.php...

Answer 3

I am not sure but I had similar problem with my other site and I endup with below hack.

Same as /admin/ I wanted to redirect all pages under /some-category/ so I have created the folder on the same level from the root. And place .htaccess with 301 code and things are done nicely :)

So you can try by creating admin directory to your q2a and place .htaccess into that directory with whatever rule you want in it.

But I just wonder what and how you want to control admin section? by IP or what?

Pleset let us know if this hack works.. 

Note: Q2A never keep URL admin/ but it always add the page right after admin..  /admin/general etc..