Restricting access on ccgi

[#1]

A quick trawl through the forum indicates that restricting access to PHP stuff on the ccgi platform is not supported directly, and can only be achieved by a workaround that sounds rather involved. Have things improved at all with the new platform and PHP5?

[#2]

If you mean restricting access by using .htpasswd control or 'deny from all' then, yes those will work for .php files on the new ccgi platform.
Gabe

[#3]

Thanks Gabe. I guess I mean "using anything that's easy", really - I've never tried securing anything on Linux/Apache before. I got the impression that there's a way using a .htpasswd file but that it didn't work with php files so I didn't look too closely.
Would you happen to have a link to a Beginner's Guide article/posting that's suitable for the current platform?

[#4]

I think the <a href="http://usertools.plus.net/tutorials/?id=5">PUG tute</a> and linked password generator should work, except that you get your path by running a cgi script from a browser:

#!/bin/bash
echo "Content-type: text/plain"
echo
pwd

So your .htaccess code would look something like:

AuthUserFile /share/storage/0X/us/username/protectedfolder/.htpasswd
AuthType Basic
AuthName "enter password"
Require valid-user

Passwords are sent in plain text, as with ftp.
Gabe

[#5]

OK, thanks, I'll take a look.
Apologies for the delay in responding.