webserver

Here's what I need to to to update drupal (minor updates, e.g. from 7.18 to 7.19) on my Ubuntu server. I have installed drupal from the drupal source itself and not from the Ubuntu repository (because the Ubuntu repository is usually quite old and not updated as frequently). Actually the update is quite painless; I am sure somebody automated that already somewhere...
cd /var/www
su
wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-7.19.tar.gz
tar -xvzf drupal-7.19.tar.gz
chown -R jeltsch:www-data drupal-7.19


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.