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How to password protect an apache directory

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You want to password protect a website? directory on a website? This is how.

So you want to password protect a directory on a website, do you?
You need to create a file called ".htaccess", and you want to create this in the directory that you're protecting. We'll use howtojust.com as an example for this. Say that I have a directory on howtojust called "secrets", which is located at /var/www/howtojust/htdocs/secrets/ This is what I would do.
 $ cd /var/www/howtojust/secrets
 $ nano .htaccess
(vim works better!)
.htaccess should look like this:
 AuthName "Secrets are in here!"
 AuthType Basic
 AuthUserFile /var/www/howtojust/htdocs/secrets/.htpasswd
 AuthGroupFile /var/www/howtojust/htdocs/secrets/.htgroup
 require group people_i_trust

 Options +ExecCGI
substitute "howtojust" and "secrets" with whatever the values for your website are.
You'll also need a file called ".htgroup"
 $ nano .htgroup

 people_i_trust: gandalf
That's it. Just the name of a group, followed by a : followed by the username you want them to have
Now you need a file called .htpasswd do it like this:
 $ htpasswd .htpasswd gandalf
It will prompt you for the password, then you'll confirm it...and that is it! Try opening your directory now and you'll be prompted for a password. If you followed exactly what I did, you'd type "gandalf" and then whatever password you put in after htpasswd

good luck!

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