Disallowing anonymous access to my site - modifying the .HTACCESS file- HELP

[Chip]

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to password protect my site? I have created it with FP and used to have it locked up but FPE's blew up recently and I am now unable to remove anonymous access. I receive an error saying "The access control file \".../.htaccess\" was not created by this client program and cannot be edited safely using this client program....but it was??

Support suggested I post this to the smart people on this site for suggestions on possibly editing the .HTACCESS file or??

Thank you,

Chip

[MattS]

Hi Chip,

If you are looking to password protect the FOLDERS on your site, there is a great tool available through the Control Panel. To use it:

- Log in to your Control Panel
- Click on Directory Protection
- Click on the folder you wish to protect (note: if you want to password protect more than one folder, you can just repeat this process for each folder]
- Mark the check box next to where it says Folder requires a password to access via http://
- The name you put in next to Protected Resource Name doesn't really matter too much - you can make it the name of the folder, if you wish
- Next you will create the login and pass for the folder... enter the first user name and hit Add New User
- Refresh the page, find the user's name in the list, enter a password and then hit Change Password
- The folder is now password protected with the user name and password you just created

Hope this helps!