Make apache ask for username and pswd when accessing directo

[altiris]

Looking for a quick newb solution, I have a main page when accessing the Web server that is full of hyperlinks, they essentially just send them to other folders/files located in /var/www/html I would like to restrict access to some of these links by having a username and password prompt, how can I go about doing this? I used to be able to do this on a windows 2000 server.

[aks]

Quick solution? Well you can use .htaccess - see http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml
That assumes Apache though. If you're using IIS then you're posting in the wrong forum.

[altiris]

Quick solution? Well you can use .htaccess - see http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml
That assumes Apache though. If you're using IIS then you're posting in the wrong forum.

I was about to come here and answer this post and then realized I was the one that made the question. I actually did it a different way and I thought id share it incase anyone else wanted to do the same.

I followed this, http://www.server-world.info/en/note?os ... httpd&f=12
and changed the /var/www/html/auth-pam directory to where the page I wanted to ask password was, so for example if its something like "FTP" it would be /var/www/html/ftp and that was it.

I haven't had luck with getting .htaccess to work on centos, maybe I didnt fix the permissions or something.