How to create password protected folder

[trifin]

Hi,

I would like to make a folder on my ftp site that I can set a password to allow access.

How do I do that?

Thanks!!!

[JD]

For FTP, you can't.

If you mean want to have access to a Web folder (via a web browser) password protected, the first hit on a Google search for 'password protect web folder' shows you how:

http://www.elated.com/articles/password-protecting-your-pages-with-htaccess/

[paulc]

Not every web server is apache-based!

I take it the purpose is to allow others to d/l stuff from your web hosted site. You COULD have a folder there with multiple files. You could then host a simply html page with links to each file... so that clicking on a link will download the file. I do something like this all the time... but it's generally only a single file, so I u/l the file and send a URL like so:

http://yummysoftware/downloads/next.zip

Send the link in e-mail and all most need to do is clck on it and "next.zip" will download."