How to set passwd for your web pages

Dear IE Students,

If you want to set passwd for your HTML documents, please follow these steps:

1. mkdir a directory under your ~/public_html
2. In this directory create a file ".htaccess" file with the following lines
   

      AuthUserFile < path>/passwd_file 
      AuthName "Restricted stuff" 
      AuthType Basic 
      Require valid-user
       

3. create the "passwd_file" with the following command
   htpasswd -c passwd_file user_name
4. put the HTML documents that you want to protect under this directory
5. now whenever people access these HTML documents under this directory need to supply the user_name and its passwd

As this web server is shared by all students, any highly confidential document is not suitable to be housed in this web server.