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Password-protect a Subdomain with Plesk

Posted November 18, 2008 @ 7:43 AM, by Marc, in Hosting 1 Comments icon

Boston Web Studio uses the Plesk Control Panel to manage its web hosting accounts, and while Plesk has served us well for years, it does have one shortcoming that baffles me and many other people: 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 the web server using a command-line interface.

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