Hello

Ive made a folder containing some *.xls and *.doc (Documents for adminstrative use)
These files aare supposed to be accessed only by me and a few others.

I use htaccess other places at my homepage, and it works fine.
Hence Ive protected the folder with a htaccess-file. And the folder itself and some html-files are protected and unaccessible without a username/password.

But!!! if I type the url to the *.doc
(like http://www.myhomepage.com/documents/members.doc) directly in my webbrowser, the document opens.

Why isnt the document protected by the htaccess-file?

Thanks in advance!
Rug

Do you have the .htaccess in the documents folder?

Yes. But your question gave me an idea!!!

I made a new folder under the documentfolder,
(Like http://www.myhomepage.com/documents/members/members.doc), but lets the htaccess-file stay in the documentsfolder.

In this way the folder members gets protected, and hence the members.doc

THANKS!!!

Rug