[cobalt-users] RE: htaccess and FrontPage

[Brenda Fuller <bfuller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Looking for an answer to this question.  I have been searching the archives
for a couple of days and tried all suggestions to no avail.  I'm stuck and
need to figure this out if anyone can help.  I am having the same problem as
this person in the archives:

<snip>
> I have a RAQ2 and want want to protect a single directory in a user web.
> It ist a Frontpage-Web.
> Frontpage says that I can see the setting but cannot edit them.
> If I manually edit .htaccess and .htpasswd I cannot access to the web.
<snip>

I too can set up htaccess and htpasswd and it protects the directory fine
but I can no longer publish any changes to the site.
Here is one of the recommendations:

"I set up http://www.cgi-factory.com/password/index.shtml Password Manager
in
a client's FrontPage web site with no problems.
In the cfg.pl file I set the path as
$passfile="/home/sites/site#/.htpasswd"; with site# being that site's
directory."
<snip>

I tried this and I couldn't even access the site anymore.  It wouldn't
recognize the login and password.  I have also tried telnetting and creating
the htaccess file (another recommendation in the archive) and even tried
changing ownership to no avail.

Does anyone know of a way to protect the directory and still publish changes
to the site through FrontPage?

Thanks for your time.

Brenda Fuller
Texas Sites