Office of Web Services
What is an htaccess file?

Creating a text file called "htaccess.txt" is a simple way to password protect certain Web pages in Cascade.

Create a new file in any text editor such as Notepad (Windows) or Text Edit (Mac) and name it htaccess.txt. Copy the following content into your htaccess.txt file. 

NovellAuth on
AuthName "Novell Tree"
AuthType login.clemson.edu

<Limit GET POST>
require valid-user
</Limit>

Save the file. Upload it to Cascade and place it in the folder you want to password protect.

The level of security varies with the options outlined in the file. The example above will allow access to anyone with a valid Clemson userid and password. If you want to limit access to specific userids, then you would replace the line:

require valid-user

with something like:

require user terriv
require user cryan
require user bundric

This would allow only the users terriv, cryan and bundric access.

After you upload the file to Cascade, remember to go to the System tab and remove the checkmarks from the Include when publishing and Include when indexing boxes.