# Password protection part of a radiant web site **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [January 11, 2007, 1:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/password-protection-part-of-a-radiant-web-site/81660 "2007-01-11T01:09:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![luigi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@luigi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luigi)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 1:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/password-protection-part-of-a-radiant-web-site/81660/1 "2007-01-11T01:09:08Z")
Hello. Is there any working solution made available by the radiant development/user community to password protect a part of a radiant-based web site? Unluckily it seems the password\_protected behavior doesn’t work with 0.5.2 (see below for the error I get) ☹ Many thanks in advance! Luigi ActionController::MissingTemplate (Missing template /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/radiant-0.5.2/lib/…/app/views/site/show\_page.rhtml): /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action\_controller/base.rb:1034:in `assert\_existence\_of\_template\_file’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action\_controller/base.rb:724:in `render\_file’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action\_controller/base.rb:648:in `render\_with\_no\_layout’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action\_controller/layout.rb:245:in `render\_without\_benchmark’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action\_controller/benchmarking.rb:53:in `render' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:293:in`measure’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action\_controller/benchmarking.rb:53:in `render’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action\_controller/base.rb:942:in `perform\_action\_without\_filters’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action\_controller/filters.rb:368:in `perform\_action\_without\_benchmark’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action\_controller/benchmarking.rb:69:in `perform_action_without_rescue' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:293:in`measure’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action\_controller/benchmarking.rb:69:in `perform\_action\_without\_rescue’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action\_controller/rescue.rb:82:in `perform\_action’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action\_controller/base.rb:408:in `send’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action\_controller/base.rb:408:in `process\_without\_filters’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action\_controller/filters.rb:377:in `process\_without\_session\_management\_support’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.5/lib/action\_controller/session\_management.rb:117:in `process' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.6/lib/dispatcher.rb:38:in`dispatch’ /opt/lsws/fcgi-bin/RailsRunner.rb:12 ---
**Author:** ![luigi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@luigi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luigi)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 8:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/password-protection-part-of-a-radiant-web-site/81660/2 "2007-01-11T08:41:50Z")
Ruben D. Orduz wrote: > ho questo archivio “app/views/site/show\_page.rhtml” in questo diretorio? Ciao Ruben, grazie per l’aiuto! 🙂 the file is effectively missing. My installation of radiant is from the gem and not a “full” one (i.e. the app dir is not in my application root directory). What the show\_page file is supposed to contain? Grazie. Luigi ---
**Author:** ![luigi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@luigi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luigi)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 1:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/password-protection-part-of-a-radiant-web-site/81660/3 "2007-01-11T01:48:10Z")
Luigi, ho questo archivio “app/views/site/show\_page.rhtml” in questo diretorio? ---
**Author:** ![luigi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@luigi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luigi)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 11:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/password-protection-part-of-a-radiant-web-site/81660/4 "2007-01-11T11:42:45Z")
Luigi R. wrote: > Ruben D. Orduz wrote: > > > ho questo archivio “app/views/site/show\_page.rhtml” in questo diretorio? > > the file is effectively missing. My installation of radiant is from the > > gem and not a “full” one (i.e. the app dir is not in my application root > > directory). I created the file “app/views/site/show\_page.rhtml”, and when I access the password protected page it is simply rendered to the browser but no authentication request is issued. I think it worth noticing I’m using litespeed as web server to serve the radiant site. L ---
**Author:** ![luigi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@luigi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luigi)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 4:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/password-protection-part-of-a-radiant-web-site/81660/5 "2007-01-19T16:30:49Z")
What I don’t get is how can he be running Radiant w/o an app folder inside RAILS\_ROOT dir? I’m still puzzled about that one. Sensa una buona explicazione non puo fare niente. ---
**Author:** ![luigi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@luigi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luigi)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 4:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/password-protection-part-of-a-radiant-web-site/81660/6 "2007-01-11T16:21:29Z")
Luigi R. wrote: > Hello. > > Is there any working solution made available by the radiant > development/user community to password protect a part of a radiant-based > web site? > > Unluckily it seems the password\_protected behavior doesn’t work with > 0.5.2 (see below for the error I get) ☹ Probably the easiest thing to do is to setup basic authentication with an apache .htaccess file. Would that work for you? – John L. [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com) ---
**Author:** ![luigi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@luigi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luigi)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 10:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/password-protection-part-of-a-radiant-web-site/81660/7 "2007-09-25T22:43:34Z")
Ruben D. Orduz wrote: > What I don’t get is how can he be running Radiant w/o an app folder > inside RAILS\_ROOT dir? I’m still puzzled about that one. Sensa una > buona explicazione non puo fare niente. Hello Ruben. I installed radiant from a gem, and not as an application bu as an instance. Here is what the installation dir has inside: [http://pastie.caboo.se/32595](http://pastie.caboo.se/32595) (Note: the show\_page.rhtml file in the “app/views/site” was added today) It seems to me the problem is with the HTTP Authentication part of the password\_protected behavior, which doesn’t seem to happen … (maybe because of litespeed?). I’m using the latest behavior available and I installed it as a plugin. Thank you for you assistance. L ---
**Author:** ![luigi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@luigi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luigi)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 4:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/password-protection-part-of-a-radiant-web-site/81660/8 "2007-01-19T16:31:28Z")
Many thanks for your assistance. John W. Long wrote: > Probably the easiest thing to do is to setup basic authentication with > an apache .htaccess file. Would that work for you? It would work but how can be, for example, the “/official-documents/documents” page protected with .htaccess? In other words, where should I put the .htaccess file to protect a “virtual” radiant sub-sub-directory? L ---
**Author:** ![luigi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@luigi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luigi)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 10:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/password-protection-part-of-a-radiant-web-site/81660/9 "2007-09-25T22:52:11Z")
Luigi, Yeah .htaccess will not work under litespped or lighthttpd, so John’s suggestion probably won’t work. And if the password protection of the extension relies on HTTP auth, then it probably won’t work either.