How do you password protect a web page?

How do I password protect a webpage?


I have a website that is fully accessible but would like to create some hidden pages for clients to access. These pages should be password protected so they are private.I don't necessarily need to have them encrypted or anythign fancy if that happens to be difficult.





I want to be able to load new information to these pages and I will email the people for them to check the new stuff.





How do I do this? I use dreamweaver and have no programming knowledge except basic HTML stuff.





Please help. Walk me through every step.





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I use WIndows XP Professional SP2 and the server uses Linux.





It also states extra stuff-


It has Apache version 1.3.37 (UNIX)


Perl Version 5.8.5





I don't know any of that stuff how that works. I don't know what PHP is....I am not a programmer, I work on visual stuff so this is alllllllllllll new to me.

How do you password protect a web page?
THis needs to be configured in the Web Application Server (For example IIS or Apache)





Generally, there is a keyword like PROTECT that would invoke password checking routines.





You will need to know how to configure a Web Application Server to make this happen, unless oyu want to do fancy programs to have your programs check and validate users.
Reply:Sorry man. You kind of must learn PhP. It's not that hard if you know CSS.
Reply:Find a tutorial on how you edit your .htaccess file to pw protect pages. if the server uses cPanel, then you can do it there.
Reply:put an ".htpasswd" file somewhere in the site containing the user and password in this format:





user:pass








then put an ".htaccess" file in the site root directory with the following content:





AuthUserFile PATH_TO_HTPASSWD_FILE


AuthType Basic


AuthName "PANEL DESCRIPTION"


Require valid-user





%26lt;Files .htaccess%26gt;


order allow,deny


deny from all


%26lt;/Files%26gt;





of course this is not the safest method... for more documentation, search the web a little about the usage of those two files