Set or change a password on a hosted page

Who it's for

• Hosts sharing drafts with a small group before going public
• Portfolio or resume pages that should not be fully public
• Anyone who received unexpected password prompts and wants to fix access

Steps

1. When hosting — On the home page paste tab, enable Password protect and enter a visitor password before Host now.
2. After hosting — In History, open Edit on a paste page, switch between public and password, and save.
3. Share carefully — Send the same share link plus the password out of band (chat or email).
4. Visitor view — Visitors see a password gate before your HTML loads (see snippet).
5. Turn off — Disable protection in Edit to make the page public again.

Gotchas

• Password protection applies to the hosted page URL, not your HTMLPUT login password.
• There is no per-viewer account—anyone with the password can open the page.
• Zip/folder sites: change title or password with More → Re-upload in Uploads. Paste pages use Edit in History.

• Understand your share link
• Unexpected password gate
• Host your first page