The purpose of using the “distributed configuration file” .htaccess is so that users may control authentication. It can also be set in the Apache configuration file httpd.conf WITHOUT using the .htaccess file. This can improve server performance as the server will not have to look for the .htaccess file in each subdirectory. File: httpd.conf (portion) .. … <Directory /home/domain/public_html/membersonly> AllowOverride [...]

Open a command prompt (Start > Run > cmd). Navigate to the Apache bin directory (by default, C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\bin). To configure the admin account, enter the following command, substituting the path shown here with the actual path to the Websense Explorer scripts directory: htpasswd -c “C:\Program Files\Websense Reporter\Explorer\scripts\.htpasswd” admin IMPORTANT! The -c flag is used to create a new .htpasswd [...]

This is an introductory guide for people learning to use a Linux system. It focuses on command-line usage. This is not because everyone will be doing everything at the command line. On the contrary, there are many useful GUI tools and programs in Linux, and some people will be content to stay with these. However, in contrast to GUI programs, which can be learned largely by “click and try”, the command-line requires some deliberate learning, and reading documentation. The benefit of this investment is that you will learn the tools and tricks of the command line which are in many cases faster, more powerful, and more flexible than any GUI program.

There are two ways of restricting access to documents: either by the hostname of the browser being used, or by asking for a username and password. The former can be used to, for example, restrict documents to use within a company. However if the people who are allowed to access the documents are widely dispersed, [...]

Considering the high-end rising PCs and storage capacity nowadays, it is now practical and cost effective to do backup management and administration to server’s local or network storage disk, not like decades ago where you would buy a very costly tape backup drive to backup small enteprise scaled data. This is where we cover BackupPC. [...]