Password Protecting Web Pages
An end-user asked for instructions on password protecting some personal web pages today. The general idea is to do something like this:
ssh www.hep.wisc.edu
cd ~/www
mkdir priv
cd priv
cat > .htaccess <<EOT
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile $HOME/www/priv/.htpasswd
AuthName "Private Web Space"
Require valid-user
EOT
htpasswd -c .htpasswd guest
And now--voila!--you should only be able to access...
http://www.hep.wisc.edu/~yourlogin/priv/
...using the login "guest" and the password you supplied to the
"htpasswd" command.
Another Web Service Outage
The UW-HEP web service (www.hep.wisc.edu) was down from around midnight until 0900 today. The system was replaced with new hardware at around 1030.
Web Service Outage
The UW-HEP web server was down from about 0020 to 0814 local time today: it hung with scsi disk errors.
