Hey Patrick,
You can use .htaccess files to protect the areas of the site you don't
want the world at large to see. Check out how this can be done at
builder.com:
http://www.builder.com/Authoring/Stupid/ss01.html
Tim
On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Patrick Putteman wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Got another question:
>
> I use my linuxbox at the office for monitoring and accounting of the bandwith/uptime
>of our servers, with automatic generation of HTML pages (mrtg and netsaint are 2 of
>the apps I use). Of course, this info is kind of confidential and therefor I would
>like to have to enter a password upon entering the confidential parts of the server.
> How do I configure Apache so that it asks a password upon browsing to certain
>files/dirs?
> I had a look at the apache docs, but they're not entirely clear on this.
>
> Thx,
>
> Patrick Putteman
> Internet Support Manager
> Net7 - Member of the Advalvas Group
>
