> The pages in question need to be protected by an auth directive which I > presume needs to be in the .htaccess of the directory holding the pages. No, you can put these in your real Apache configuration enclosed in <virtualhost> and <directory>, which lets you limit them to the SSL or non-SSL vhost. -- Eric Covener covener@xxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx