Recommendations for password protection on site

[Nelmster]

Sorry, if this is the wrong forum, but I wasn't sure where to go with this one. I need to password protect a portion of my site, and I have NO CLUE how to do it. I'm willing to learn, but I don't even know where to begin. I would like individual user names and passwords...not just one for the whole site. Where in the world do I begin?

I know Google is my friend, but I either didn't like the results, or I wasn't smart enough to comprehend what in the world I was supposed to do!

 

[Heisenberg]

Are you running apache? If so, start here.

 

[Nelmster]

thanks, I'll start reading!

 

[n0cmonkey]

Wrong forum.

 

[Nelmster]

Heisenberg, thanks! Admittedly, it was more than I needed, but it very much got me pointed in the right direction, and I was able to figure out where to look through my provider and got it handled. Thanks a ton!

:beer: Cheers! :beer:

n0cmonkey: serious question (not trying to be a smarta$$) -> which forum should this have gone in? Thanks!