Mark's blog

OK – not done much work on the website but always playing around. I have been trying to secure a directory on this site, which is hosted by easily.co.uk…

The easily support is a bit out of date it seems for my hosting plan – so here is how I finally figured it out, and thanks to the easily support page and the “mdid” blog

So eventually I created a directory in /website named “protected” – I put the .htpasswd in there and referenced it from my .htaccess using the directory /web1/userXXXX/website/protected/.htpasswd where XXXX is my username.

http://mdid.wordpress.com/2004/03/31/password-protecting-a-directory-easilycouk/

http://support.easily.co.uk/al/12/2/article.asp?aid=1049&n=1&tab=search&bt=4n&r=1.248878E-02&s=1

I removed the Wiki from planetrandall for a few reasons:

1. I am so impressed with wordpress – have installed it at work (http://www.icr3s.co.uk) and we will be putting it on our website shortly. This has also given me a chance to play around with themes, so I will be working on a new theme on planetrandall.com with all of my artistic license!
2. Mediawiki was using more php memory than easily hosting would allow – don’t call that easily but it wouldn’t allow me to upload images
3. I don’t really need a wiki anyway!