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Apparently it is empty. Is there hope?

"However, do this step only if you don't already have an .htaccess file there -- this will overwrite whatever you have (you may already have .htaccess for fooling spambots, redirecting file types, or some other purpose, so doublecheck. If it's already there, we'll have to retool a bit, to integrate the user-level access with the existing contents)." Alas, it turns out there already _is_ an .htaccess file in the public_html.

Thanks very much for this! I will try it out.

Hello, I have a family blog, and want to restrict access through username/password. I can't figure out how to do it. There doesn't seem to be an option to protect the public_html folder (maybe this is not possible?). I tried making a new folder, to put another layer between public_html (where is where my index files are) and the blog files (Movable Type). But this ended up a mess, couldn't get to the website directly, so I removed that new folder and put things back the way there were. Is there an easy way to do this? (note: I really don't know what I'm doing).