publish to password protected directory

[Cnote]

My client needs to have a password protected area on her site. The only way I can see doing it is created a password protected directory in plesk and creating users.

However, when she tries to publish with sitebuilder to that directory she gets the following message.

"The site cannot be published to the specified location.
Cannot publish to password protected HTTP server. Please contact the server administrator."

How can I set her up so she has a page/pages that is password protected?

 

[Dmitry Frantsev]

Please check following thread for detaled description of the case:

http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=84930

As a workaround customer can publish site in the following way:

1. disable password protection
2. publish changes
3. enable password protection

This should work.

 

[Jllynch]

Is there an easy way to "suspend" the passwords on a directory and reinstate them?

At the moment this is very inconvenient as in Plesk when you delete the secure directory requirement it also deletes all the passwords and you have to create them all again when finished.

Is there a way to allow the local host to bypass the passwords maybe (the one doing the publishing from sitebuilder). Maybe in .htaccess or something?

Or can the passwords be stored to restore them or something?