Posted by J.O. Aho on 01/17/07 16:54

patrick j wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm going to suggest to a friend of mine that I create a web-site for
> her. She lives in London and I live in Brighton.
>
> I'd like it if I could put the web-site up on a server such that I or
> she can see it but nobody else. This is so she can have a look at it
> during the period it is being created.
>
> Is there an easy way to do this?

Apache has the access control support, that will give you easy way to password
protect parts of the web servers pages (of course you can do it for all too),

for Apache 1.3.x see: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/auth.html
for Apache 2.x see: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/auth.html


using the built in features of Apache, you don't need to write special login
features or use server side scripting and so on, just old plain HTML files
works fine.

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//Aho

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