[ic] passwording admin area via Apache

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Nora Heuer - Baytides Management Inc.)]

On 18 Oct 2002 at 11:26, Daniel wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> Has anyone successfully used Apache authentication to add an
> additional username/password protection on the admin area (and not the
> customer part of the site)?  
> 
> I've been yet unable to use Apache style authentication (having and
> .htaccess file, or a </Directory> section in the httpd.conf file) to
> protect anything other than the entire catalog (by specifying the
> authentication in the cgi-bin directory).
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> Daniel
> 

Isn't that what administration - access is for?
I mean, why would you need .htaccess?
Nora