I am not using Apachi myself. I am writing all this on a home windows based computer. I use phpdesigner for my code. and ftpsurfer.
I am on a shared hosting system
Linux fhlinux190.fasthosts.co.uk 2.4.21-53.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Nov 14 03:54:12 EST 2007 i686
I get this
/home/fhlinux190/d/des-otoole.co.uk/user/htdocs
Iwrote a .htaccess file in text mode and placed it in a folder MyPrivate. That is
/user/htdocs/MyPrivate
content =
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Keepout"
AuthUserFile /user/htdocs/MyPrivate/.pwds
Require valid-user
I wrote a text based file .pwds and placed it in user as this is the lowest I can get
Contents
desmond:otuatail
not sure if there was a /r/n at the end
Desmond.