Password Protect forum?
 

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.

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.

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

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/htacces...triction-2176/