Building frontend + backend : best practices ?

[eluser]Bramme[/eluser]
[quote author="Isuka" date="1224283314"]It was logical to me that a frontend and a backend are 2 differents applications.

@Bramme : Where do you put your .htacces and .htpasswd the ? Simply in the admin folder of your controllers folder ?[/quote]I must say that looks unlogical to me... In the end, the backend is a supporting feature of your frontend, the two are meant to be used together... Word and Excel are two different applications...

I don't password protect the folder with .htaccess, so I wouldn't know. I guess you would put it in the application/controllers/admin folder.