Re: htpasswd problem with Comcast PWP

["bostonlinuxandunix" <user=37@nabble.blu.org>]

 If comcast is that much trouble, it might make more sense to use 
something else. For photos, you could use Flickr or Picasa; for home 
movies, there's youtube or google-video; and for news, there are many 
places to host a blog, where you can tie in your photos and videos 
from the other sites. 

On Dec 22, 2007 8:16 AM, Mike <[hidden email]> 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. 
> 
> The tech support people at Comcast have absolutely no idea how 
> to accomplish the password protection of the site so they have 
> been no help at all. If I remember right, their old PWP site 
> builder file manager used to have the option of password 
> protecting your site or a specific directory but that is no 
> longer available with the new PWP site builder. 
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated with this. 
> 
> Thank you in advance! 
> Mike 
> 
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