abyss web server

[devilmaycry4187]

im running the web server program "abyss" for my website and i need to know how to make the program ask for a user name and password before it will allow someone to log onto the main page or the ftp page

[Vernon Frazee]

Source: http://www.aprelium.com/news/abws12b2.html

Patterns

Have you ever wanted to password protect all your JPEG files? The only way to do it with the previous versions of Abyss Web Server was to group all of them in the same directory and to add an access rule for this directory.

With the introduction of patterns, password protecting all your JPEG files requires only to add a single access rule that restricts the access to all virtual paths that match with the pattern /*.jpg.

Patterns can be used in the Access Rules, CGI Paths, CGI Interpreters extensions lists, and SSI associated extensions. They are very easy to master since they are compatible with the usual MS-DOS patterns and UNIX sh patterns. More information can be found in the updated documentation that ships with Abyss Web Server.