[farmer]

I have a directory on a webserver that I want to have prompt for username and password when someone tries to access it. I am unix newbie, so don't assume I know any commands already.


Thanks in advance

I also posted this in the unix forum

[megus]

Have a look at this article. I think you'll find everything you need to know.

//megus

[philm]

The way I did this was to use Weblock which is the GUI front end to create files to do this. See

http://versiontracker.com/moreinfo.f...579&db=mac

It's all rather simple in fact. Once I figured out what files Weblock was doing, I started doing this myself using some simple UNIX stuff. I think you need to understand how to navigate around using the CLI in UNIX, how to make simple alterations to text files (I use Pico for example).

The most helpful source of information I found was at;

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/auth.html

Good luck!