Passwords on pages

Hi, i'm new and i have never designed a website before now i have got it up on my new domain using the server from yahoo small businesses.

Q. how do i put a password on a webpage so people have to be a member to download files.

anyway that doesnt need me to know the perl folder as yahoo doesnt have it visible because they say any page can run scripts, same for the cgi-bin.

i just need a nice easy way of doing it.

Thanks very much for your help

philip

.htacess
You can do it through that.

As sypher mentioned, .htaccess is the easiest way.

http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess3.shtml

Thanks mate, and i'm hoping its free , i should pay you to help me

would you say people need to have javascript to be a member if i have a java script password

I'm not sure, but don't use javascript (did my link tell you to use javascript?) because your password is stored in your visible code, and that's not cool.

I can password protect a file with yahoo server part like when i make a subdirectory but when i link to it from my website it says page cannot be displayed.

Problem solved now thanks

Let us know how you solved it for future reference.

What i did was, i found a new way of people getting acess to my subdirectory as i gave the link address right upto the filename but it doesnt allow that, so i thought about it and took off the filename and now the website goes to all of the files.I suppose it will do although it would have been good to have it go straight to the file and download.Then yahoo just allows you to add password to the subi still cant do page passwords but thats ok