My dad wanted to have basic Authentication applied to his blog, so here are the directives you’d need to add to a Virtualhost configuration: [code] ServerAdmin info@somdomain.com DocumentRoot /home/user/public_html ….. AuthType Basic AuthName “By Invitation Only” AuthUserFile {path to password file}/passwd/passwords Require user yourUsername [/code] In order for this to fully function you’ll need to create a password file. The instructions can be found here. Of note if you are using Debian with the default Apache install (v. 1.3.x) is that htpasswd is located in /usr/bin and since it’s a non standard install chances are you’ll need to specify a different location for your password file than the one indicated in the above link. Since I have BD running I had created a whole bunch of directories and symbolic links to make BD believe that Apache was installed as per normal, so I just had to create a passwd folder in /usr/local/apache, but you may have to do more.