A couple things to jot down:

1. Path to your Apache server (e.g., c:\apache)
2. Path to your CONF folder (e.g., c:\apache\conf)
3. Path to your DOCROOT folder (e.g., c:\apache\htdocs)
4. Path to the folder you wish to password-protect. In myexample, lets take a
   folder called “secure”, so the path to this

   would be
   “c:\apache\htdocs\secure”. (It could be ABOVE the htdocs

   folder as
   well, FYI).

Ok, what to do:

1. Open up your httpd.conf. (On my machine this is at
   “c:\apache\conf\httpd.conf”).
2. Look for the word AllowOverride, and change it from None to All.



3. Our httpd.conf is done. Now we need to create the password
   file. Open up a DOS prompt and go to the apache’s BIN directory. In
   my case, it is “c:\apache\bin”.



4. Now, we need to create the .HTACCESS file itself.



5. Restart Apache – This is what happens when accessing your secret area!