Instructions for password-protecting a page

Last Updated 2019-05-09 by Adam Lu

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• Connect to the server fishfish via a graphical desktop (either VNC or X2Go).

• Open a terminal:

  • Navigate to /media/shareX/Website/

  • Start a draft version of the website locally by typing one of the following commands:

      # -D means "include drafts"
      hugo -D server
    
      # This is an alias for the above command
      draftwebsite
    

    You should see an output like this:

    Web Server is available at //localhost:1313/

• Open a Web browser (either Firefox or the Web Browser icon on the bottom):

  • Type in localhost:1313 or whatever number you get from the previous step. The website draft should appear.

  • Click on Lab Links on the top menu bar.

  • Under For Website Building, click on Password Test Page.

  • Enter the password you would like to use and hit Enter. You should see

    wrong password

    which is normal behavior.

  • Copy the number after the hash (#) in the site address and make a folder named by that number under /media/shareX/Website/content/test-password.

  • Copy over the file index.md (this page prints out a success string) from other similarly named folders and modify the content to reflect the new password.

  • Go back to the Password Test Page and enter your password. The success page should show up now.

• Finally, create the page:

  • In the folder you would like to place the page, copy over file _index.md and the folder you just created in /media/shareX/Website/content/test-password and
  • Edit the index.md to reflect the content of the page