password protecting public directories

Thanks for your time. I

I have a working sub-directory of a SiteFinity project in which I am testing out templates and things. I would like to slap a quick entry authentication on that folder just to keep it under wraps and keep access to it controlled. Like an htaccess file, but I think SiteFinity is a big compiled application that executes from the web if I'm not mistaken so I can't picture how to do this.

SiteFinity's back end permissions workflow obviously is quite granular and covers many levels of access for back end users, but I don't see how it would apply to this purely front end use case.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Hi,

Sitefinity permissions only apply for sitefinity content (news, blogs, events, etc) and pages, permissions over the folders in IIS are not managed by sitefinity.
I suppose the folder created will be among the website files which will make the folder handled by IIS and to set permissions for the folder refer to this article.

Regards,
Stanislav Velikov
Telerik

Let's say my SiteFinity project is accessible via ~/pages/ from the root.

My sub-directory where I'm working might then be ~/pages/working/.

Are you saying I will need to go into IIS in order to put a username/password authentication on that subdirectory? Please confirm, thanks.

Hello Luke,

Thank you for the clarification. From what I understand, you have a test frontend page where you teste templates and controls. In this case, the best way would be to use the Sitefinity permissions for that page and change the view permissions from Everyone only to your user or a role. This way, other frontend users will not be able to access it.

Regards,
Atanas Valchev
Telerik