I'm working on a website in which I -as an admin- need to be able to access a PHP script that no one else can. Building a whole login system with accounts would be overkill in this case, as I would be the only one using it.
So my question is, how can I create a very basic yet secure authentication system?
Given that I have an Apache HTTP Server, can I use the .htaccess file to forbid access to certain PHP files and ask for a certain combination of username/password?
