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htaccess & htpasswd not hooking up correctly

Every time I try to go to Art School on Home Page and put it the correct username/password I get a server error. Yes this is homework, and yes it is my first time doing anything related to this type of setup so any help would be appreciated. All the various instructions that I found listed this as the correct way so I'm sort of stuck. ...

protecting backend with htaccess and htpasswd - general question?

hey guys, i know it's rather easy to pass-protect a directory on my server with .htaccess and a .htpasswd file. however is it possible to protect just a file from beeing executed? e.g. i had something like a backend direcotry on my server with a normal index.php in it. now i got rid of the directory and i have a backend.php in my root...