Re: htpasswd problem with Comcast PWP

["Gregory Boyce-3" <user=138@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Mike wrote: 

> Hello, 
> 
> I am trying to set up a password protected website for my son who is overseas 
> in the military so that we can post pictures, home movies and news from home 
> for him. I'm using comcast.net personal web page (PWP) to set up the site. 
> 
> However, after contacting comcast tech support several times, they have been 
> absolutely no help in trying to password protect the website. I finally got 
> out of them that the web servers were Apache so I figured I could use the 
> .htaccess and .htpasswd files to protect the site.  Even though I've created 
> an .htaccess file and successfully uploaded it into the directory that I want 
> protected (and when I visit the site it now prompts for a username and 
> password) for some reason I cannot implement the htpasswd command to add the 
> .htpasswd file. 
> 
> Every time I initiate the command I receive an error stating "Command Not 
> Implemented". To run the command I've been using gftp's "send site command" 
> option.