This page allows you to restrict access to a particular section of your server using HTTP user authentication. You should have a user database ready that the server can look up the users in. Be sure to choose the section of the server you want to restrict! First, choose which database the server should use to look up usernames and passwords. Next, you should tell the server which users from the above database should be allowed access. Users should be chosen with a wildcard pattern.

For example, if your database contained a list of your friends, including Bob, Fred, Mary, and Joe, but you only wanted Bob and Joe access to this section, you could use a wildcard pattern of (Bob|Joe) as your allowed users.

Or, if you leave this entry blank, all users from the database will be allowed access.

You can view all the users in a given database with this form. The realm is the name the server gives to the user so that they can identify which part of the server they are connecting to. For example, if you were restricting access to the current issue of your online magazine, you might give the realm "Current issue."