Basic Authentication with Apache

Basic Authentication with Apache: "Over the past decade or so, Apache has more than proven itself as a great web server. It's flexible, fast, well-documented, free, and serves millions of web pages on the Internet every day. Apache can be configured to protect either the whole website or just certain sections of it, allowing access only to a few authorized users. This can be done by creating users and setting up a user authentication system so that when someone goes to a protected section of the website they are asked to enter a username and a password. Let's take a look at how this can done."