[RESOLVED] .htaccess or?

[MONITOR]

First let me say this place has been a huge savior for me in my new wbesite project. I just want to thank you all for being helpful and providing me with tons of information with searches, however I need to get some input per my own specific situation on something...

.htaccess is something I have been looking/reading about for a little while now mainly because part of my new website project entales our group to have a restricted area of the website, where only team members can gain access with a login code.

Now, I have tried to fittle with the .htaccess and .htpasswd stuff for a very short time in the past couple of days (trying to finish other projects on the site), but when I upload the .htaccess file to the server, and the .htpasswd file, it doesn't seem to work correctly and I seem to be really having trouble with understanding the server path part of the .htaccess I believe.

Can sombody possibly better explain that to me?

I also notice (and this may be on part of not having the right server path) but in IE such a function didn't seem to work. Is this correct, or is it just a goof on my part causing it?


If .htaccess is not what I should use for a restricted section, what, if anything else would you recommend I look into for what we need?

[NogDog]

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If .htaccess is not what I should use for a restricted section, what, if anything else would you recommend I look into for what we need?
I'm not real strong on the ins and outs of .htaccess for login control (I just use the control panel options on my site when I want to use it to control access to specific directories.) But if PHP is an option and you don't want to deal with a database, you could take a look at the "Login Control" link in my sig.

[MONITOR]

This topic can be marked resolved. I have decided to go the Cpanle route (Wow that was tooo easy as well).

I appreciate the help and reading material