Re: restricting access to files using PHP

Shams -- ..and then Shams said... % % Hi, Hi! % .. % however, how do I restrict people from accessing HTML files in that You've seen the suggestions from others to change your .html files. You may or may not want to do that. If you don't want to do that, then you need a .htaccess file. You don't necessarily, however, need a .htpasswd file as well; just make your php script the authenticator: AuthName AccessYourDirectory AuthType Basic AuthExternal /path/to/your/script order allow,deny allow from all require valid-user This is untested code, but you get the idea. You may have to define your external auth script with some name and then call it; our version of this uses NickName instead of /path/to/your/script and in the httpd.conf file we have AddExternalAuth NickName "/path/to/script" SetExternalAuthMethod NickName pipe and I dunno if 1) adding and nicknaming is necessary or 2) you can do it in a .htaccess file instead of having to put it in the http.conf file. HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) davidtg@justpickone.org * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) davidtgwork@justpickone.org -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!