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**james.h** · #1 (**permalink**) 13-01-2007, 20:27

Can anyone help me. I am new to all of this my website hosting is not ready for uploading yet, but i need urgently to set up three folders, one which i only have access to and the other two for two different groups. can some one give me instruction in how to do this. Ihave been attempting to do this for the last day and a half.

**eUKhost.com** · #2 (**permalink**) 13-01-2007, 20:35

Hello James,

I would suggest you to download a FTP software like WS FTP Pro from download.com or ipswitch.com. You can also FTP from browser using URL ftp:// yourusername @ yourdomain.com

If you continue to face problems then open a ticket from our helpdesk : http://support.eukhost.com

Also take a look at FTP tutorials located at http://www.eukhost.com/support/

**mark36ph** · #3 (**permalink**) 14-01-2007, 20:56

You can download smartFTP from www. smartftp.com and log into ftp via that.
You can then easily create folders in there.

If you are wanting to password protect a certain folder, you are best doing this via a file called .htaccess.
If you call your folder "private" then in the file .htaccess you would put the following

Code:

AuthName "Section Name"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /full/path/to/.htpasswd
Require valid-user

Then in another file called .htpasswd you would put the following...

Code:

username:password