November 18th, 2011 
admin I have wamp installed on my local PC with static IP. As I use it for development, sometimes I am sending the customers links to applications, to check and feedback them.
A problem I experienced is that Google indexed 2 files on my PC. How he did that remains a mistery for me, but for sure this is a HUGE security problem, databases and important mails got public. So, how did I solve the problem? I created a .htaccess file like this:
Allow from xx.xxx.xxx.xxxDeny from allAuthUserFile c:\wamp\pwds\.htpasswdAuthName “Members Only”AuthType Basicrequire valid-user
What the above means:
1. I am now filtering the visitors based on their IP address. Right now only my IP is enabled, the rest will get an Access Forbidden error message.
2. Secondly, for the IPs enabled, there is a username-password combination which needs to be known. They are set in the .htpasswd file, something like:
username:password
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