Hi,

I've been looking through the threads here in earnest hoping someone would have figured out how to solve this problem, but as yet haven't seen a solution.

I have link set up and working, only I'm aware of how vulnerable the admin.cgi script is. So, here's the story so far ...

Added .htacces and .htpasswd files to cgi-bin folder where admin.cgi, etc. lives. Worked fine but, and there is a but, it turns off access to my ad serving scripts in the same folder, so got password protection, but no ads.

Thought about it, moved the 'links' scripts to a sub-folder of cgi-bin (further down the tree) and set-to to update the script locations to accomodate the moved. After several hours I realised this was not an easy job, so reverted to original setup minus the .ht* files.

Had a second thought and moved my ad serving scripts to sub-folder (much easier to update than re-writing 'links'), and after several attempts finally got all the path names updated and ads working.

Added .ht* files into main top-level cgi-bin folder and damn me it recursively passwords the whole cgi-bin tree so knocks out my ads.

Any idea's?


All the best
Shaun

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