ok here's the problem, I have to set up some protected directories, I figured out .htaccess after 2 days of beating my head only to have my 9 year old son say "daddy why is there a space at the top?" :confused: However that is not working with the .htpasswd file,

Problems,
1) no telenet access to site.

2) found a nice perl script that is suppost to manage my .htpasswd file for me but all it gives me is server error 500. (yes I chmod it as per the readme files, and yes I uploaded it in ASCII.

3) my host responce to request for help is " sorry we don't support outside scripts. Now I know that but I have recieved 3 different replies as to the absolute path to my website files( needed for pearl script mentioned earlier), and 2 different paths to pearl, and 2 different paths to sendmail.:angry:

So basicly does anyone know of a java script that I can run and use to create users and delete users?:

If you're making protected dirs through .htaccess, you'll need access to execute the "htpasswd" which create logins for the protected dir.

Originally posted by aleavens

Problems,
1) no telenet access to site.

2) found a nice perl script that is suppost to manage my .htpasswd file for me but all it gives me is server error 500. (yes I chmod it as per the readme files, and yes I uploaded it in ASCII.

3) my host responce to request for help is " sorry we don't support outside scripts. Now I know that but I have recieved 3 different replies as to the absolute path to my website files( needed for pearl script mentioned earlier), and 2 different paths to pearl, and 2 different paths to sendmail.:angry:

So basicly does anyone know of a java script that I can run and use to create users and delete users?:

Do you not have a Control Panel of some sort with your hosting account? I am familiar with Cpanel and I know it has the option to create as well as manage access to a passord-protected directory.

Do you not have a Control Panel of some sort with your hosting account? I am familiar with Cpanel and I know it has the option to create as well as manage access to a passord-protected directory.

control panel = yes,

it is hsphere from p-soft, the early version I think, it looks nothing like what the p-soft demo is now but it looks like the old demo.

nothing there for proteced directories.

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Ok this is resolved:emlaugh:

I really have to read up on my syntax :dunce: