Password Protect forum?

[MarkFoster]

How can I password protect my forum so that anybody who wants to enter will have to enter a username and password before they can access the site?

I'm talking about something real here like the popup from when you login to vbulltetins members area or something like that.

[Lynne]

Forum Manager > Edit Forum > Can have Password - Yes and then enter the password in Forum Password

[MarkFoster]

Forum Manager > Edit Forum > Can have Password - Yes and then enter the password in Forum Password

No not one forum I'm talking about the entire /forums/ directory.

[Lynne]

Like htaccess? Do a google search on "htaccess" and "password protect directory" and you'll see how to do it.

[IdanB]

there is way to use htaccess file on apache server to restrict use of certain directory with user/pass. If you want just 1 common login (user/pass) or something that is manually configured, you can look: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/htaccess.html

If you want this user/pass to be based on forum db, you can find such vbulletin mod (though was written for 3.5.x) here: http://www.vbhackers.com/f76/htaccess-iprestriction-2176/