Working with Nvu is very easy and is remarkably similar to working with Macromedia Dreamweaver or Microsoft FrontPage. Follow the steps below and you will be able to password protect the page designed with Nvu.

Step 1:

Use Nvu to create the web pages including those you need to protect, then save them on your local computer.

Step 2:

You will need to know the path where the site has been saved locally on your computer, then you can use HTML Password Lock to password protect the HTML files.

Launch HTML Password Lock.

In Step 1, click on the the "Add file" button, browse to the folder where the site has been saved locally on your computer, select the HTML file(s) you want to protect, and add each one to the file list.

In Step 2, define username and password. If this is the first time you use the software, you can click on the "Next" button to skip Steps 3 and 4, keeping the default options.

In the Last Step, click on the "Lock" button. The locked file will be listed on the file list.

Select the file on the file list, double-click it or click on the "Test" button to open it with your web browser, and test the password protection. If you open the file with Internet Explorer, click on the yellow alert bar on top of the web page, select "Allow Blocked Content" in the popup window, and click on the "Yes" button .

For a detailed description of this step, please refer to Quick Start.

Step 3:

Now that the HTML file(s) have been locked, you can upload them to your web server.

After an HTML file is protected, you cannot directly edit the protected content.

To edit the content of a locked file, first unlock it. After editing it, lock the file again. For how to restore the locked file, please refer to How to edit the content of a locked file?