Password Protecting Directories for the web page 1. cd to /web/research/projects/basin/Library 2. cp .htaccess and .htpasswd files from /Library into the directory that you want to protect 3. cd into the directory that you want to protect 4. Edit .htaccess for the current directory MUST be a hard link (typed out) ie. /data/www/basin/protected directory 5. Run htpasswd % /soft/apache/bin/htpasswd -c basins (this will make the userid = basins) type new password, twice