I'd like to password protect a "sublog" on my site. In other words, my main blog is at www.xxxxxx.com; the path is www.xxxxxx.com/weblog. I'd like to create a www.xxxxxx.com/secureblog that users can navigate to via the full url. Of course the actual url won't be any big deal to discover; and of course I can password protect to give only certain users postings rights; but what I want to do is password protect the actual www.xxxxxx.com/secureblog directory so only people I give the info out to can read the site. I don't need to move my main MT scripts or anything because that can be handled with MT's poster using security system; I just don't want the general public to be able to read the blog that's in www.xxxxxx.com/secureblog/.

Is this possible? I don't have access to SSH or Telnet with my hosting service. If necessary, I can probably upgrade my account get access. And the security doesn't need to be DoD tight or anything like it; I just want it be an area that prying eyes can't read, limited to reading by select individuals, where I can also assign some of those readers posting rights.

Do you have cpanel? or some control type panel? Most isp's (all that I've researched) give you access to password protect directories through the control panels.

That's the easiest way, if not, you can create a .htaccess and .htpasswd file for /secureblog - I forget the syntax at the moment for what you need to be in that file, but if you google for .htaccess you should find plenty of information on how to do it. =)

I *do* have cpanel! I'll go try that now!

Thanks.