Hey @diggy69
Yes, you can set that kind of configuration in your .htaccess without any affectation, this is a sample code you can start using to play around:
AuthUserFile /dev/null
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "WordPress Admin Access Control"
AuthType Basic
<LIMIT GET>
order deny,allow
deny from all
# whitelisted IP addresses
allow from xx.xx.xx.xxx
allow from xx.xx.xx.xxx
</LIMIT>
Things to consider:
– As showed in the sample, there’s no need to create user/password combination, since you only want to limit the access of the administrative area to certain ip addresses.
– Please don’t forget to replace xx’s with your public ip addresses you want to whitelist.
In addition, I found this article you can read, it shows you 11 tips to protect the administrative area (including the .htaccess configuration you’re evaluating, as part of the tips).
