bascule wrote on Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 09:56:14PM +0100 :
> aha! starting to make sense then, this means that people from outside will 
> see the public ip address that i give then that is then forwarded to the web 
> server,

Exactly.

> next:-) where should i put the htpasswd file the apache online docs suggest 
> /usr/local/apache/ as a directory but that's not on my system, do i get to 
> put it where i like with permmisions set to apache.apache 0700 ?

Put it in the base of the directory you are trying to protect.  What is
your document root set to?  On a default install of Mandrake it will be
/var/www/html.

> p.s this is very useful help, i've never tried to set up a web server before

We all gotta start at the beginning :)

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