How to password-protect a web page
(if you are using FrontPage Extensions to maintain your web site)

(FrontPage Extensions for FrontPage 2000 will soon be installed, and
FP2000 supports separately protected directories).

Note that at present FrontPage 98 will not let you create a protected
subdirectory of an existing web, so rather than using the "tools ->
permissions" menus to configure permissions, step 2 uses unix shell
commands. If you are creating a completely new web - for example
http://cc.ysu.edu/new-stuff/ - you can use the permissions menus.

(1) Create a new folder from FrontPage Explorer
- from File menu, choose new -> folder
- rename it appropriately, like "private"

(2) Create a new .htaccess file for that folder and set permissions
- log in to unix shell, and cd into this new folder
  (ie cd $HOME/public_html/private)
- copy the .htaccess file from the public_html directory to here
  cp $HOME/public_html/.htaccess .htaccess
- edit the new .htaccess file with a text editor (vi, pico, etc) and
  make the following changes:
  - after the lines "deny from all" and "allow from all" add this line:
    require valid-user

  - before the line that says "AuthName ~$USER" (your userid) add this line:
    AuthType basic
    
  - change the line that says "AuthName ~$USER" to a unique name for
    this directory, as in "AuthName cc-private"
    
  save the .htaccess file. You can now log out of the unix shell.

(3) Configure permissions for the new directory
- From the tools menu, choose Permissions.
- on the Users tab, use "add" to create new users.
  It is not necessary to create a userid/password pair for each individual
  user, you can create a userid/password pair for a group of people, like
  user "ccstaff" with password "3639"

Now, this directory is password-protected from browsing - only users
with a valid user-password pair may look at the directory.