Why Restrict Access?
Sometimes you need to restrict access to documents you publish
on www.bu.edu or people.bu.edu. For example, you might want to
restrict access to:
- Internal policy or departmental documents that should be viewed
only by certain individuals at Boston University.
- Copyrighted materials that you put on a class Web site. To abide
by fair-use guidelines, copyrighted materials should be viewed
only by the students enrolled in the class.
- Any materials that should be viewed or used only by specific
individuals.
Restricting access is easy. Basically, you create a subdirectory
for the files, and you create a special file called .htaccess that
specifies who can access the files in that subdirectory.
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