I usually use an .htaccess file like this to password protect directories.<br /><br />[]<br />AuthUserFile /home/blah/blah/lunch/blah/.htpasswd<br />AuthGroupFile /dev/null<br />AuthName "phpProtection"<br />AuthType Basic <br /><br /><Limit GET POST><br />require valid-user<br /></Limit>[/]<br /><br />Can you use .htaccess to password protect only a single file? Or does it always have to be a whole directory?

AFAIK - it a directory level thing only - I suppose you could put that file in a unique directory and then in htaccess redirect anyone viewing that file, to the one in the unique directory - that way the one file would be passworded, simply because the entire directory is.<br /><br />Havn't tried it, but that ought to work.<br /><br />

Ian is correct, I don't think you can password protect an individual file, at least not with .htaccess I don't think. The only real restrictions you can put on files by default is by CHMOD, but when restricting a file that way, you will either allow or dissalow permission, there is no password prompt. <br /><br />If someone knows of a way to do this, it would be good to know. But I think CHMOD will restrict files too much, and .htaccess will only work on a directory level.

Sure, why not. <br /><br />Stick this in your httpd.conf in your virtual host container. It will probably work with an .htaccess too.<br /><br /><Files /path/to/myfile.php><br />AuthUserFile /home/blah/blah/lunch/blah/.htpasswd<br />AuthGroupFile /dev/null<br />AuthName "phpProtection"<br />AuthType Basic<br /><br /><Limit GET POST><br />require valid-user<br /></Limit><br /></Files><br /><br />What I can't remember is ... is it <Files or <File<br /><br /> <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/doah.gif" alt="" />

Navaho - once again - you are my hero. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /><br /><br />It is "files" and did work in .htaccess<br /><br />The only difference was that since I was putting the .htaccess file in the directory that the file was in - I didn't need the whole path in the first line - just the filename.<br /><br />Then it worked like a charm. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /><br /><br />Thank you!!!!!! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

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Might want to move this to Design Matters - as it is a very useful tip <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Thanks Navaho.<br /><br />Of course Jeremy & I knew this - but want to test Navaho's knowledge...... I wish!!

haha.. yeah, really I was just testing rick's skills <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> But no.. I had no idea you could do that, so I have added it to my list of useful information <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

very interesting...but I have a "little" question. <br />What do I have to write in .htaccess file? <br />Regards from Spain. <br />Details: <br />I use windows millenium and I have to protect ONLY one file called admin.php located in folder SITIO56. <br />In SITIO56 there are more files, but I only want to protect admin.php.