Limit Access to your blog

Just a helpful suggestion, if you're going to blog about your job/personal details, you probably want to go ahead and block access from your employer/stalker ex-boyfriend.

You don't have to have a "private" or password protected site, in many instances a simple addition (or creation) of an .htaccess file will suffice. For the less technically inclined, HTML Basicx has an online .htaccess block access generator. This is not a fail-safe plan, but it certainly beats no plan at all.

12. January 2004 by Kevin Donahue
6 comments

Comments (6)

  1. Angela says January 12, 2004 at 6:32 pm

    Since I suspect I may be part of the reason for this post, thanks for the suggestion. I agree it is a good idea even if you don't think your employer is smart enough to do a Google search. Of course I'm dangerously close to reaching that bad attitude point of not caring at all – yeah, some one has to take away my blog access before it really all hits the fan.

  2. Camille says January 12, 2004 at 6:55 pm

    I was just going to ask what sparked this post. If I ever need to do that, I'll be referring to this post.

  3. Kevin says January 12, 2004 at 7:29 pm

    Hey, I'll tell ya right now, I've already .htaccess blocked all services from starwoodhotels.com, and I haven't even badmouthed my peeps! I just don't need them to know *everything*.

  4. Pete says January 12, 2004 at 9:52 pm

    Something tells me a MT Plugin for private posts would be VERY useful… if only I knew anything about writing MT plugins.

    htaccess are VERY handy, though.

  5. Michelle says January 13, 2004 at 7:30 am

    It could've been me. Oh wait, I only bitch about my job on other peoples' blogs =)

  6. cindy says January 18, 2004 at 9:05 am

    What's funny is the people who come to your website and think that they are anonymous. I could write the book on family members finding my site and lurking or worse yet leaving assinine comments.