Apache on Mac OS X

Last modified on July 24, 2026 • 1 min read • 122 words I still use one of our ancient Macintoshs (Blue/White G3) as a web server ( msbl.helsinki.fi  ). I had set up some access restrictions for some of the pages containing confidential data. And of course I forgot how I did it. Now I needed to figure out as I wanted to add some new stuff. For the general server, the accession is restricted based on individual .htaccess files in directories. In my own user directory ( msbl.helsinki.fi/~michael  ) only one folder is access restricted ( msbl.helsinki.fi/~michael/presentations/confidential  ). This setting is done in the main configuration file of Apache (/etc/httpd/httpd.conf) and only two users (michael and mcbl) have access via the following entry: AuthType Basic AuthName "Confidental" AuthUserFile /Users/michael/.htpasswd require user michael mcbl