HOWTO: Configure htaccess/htpasswd security on GoDaddy.com

Hi:

Couldn't find this info anywhere, so I thought I'd share how to enable
..htaccess/htpasswd security on a web site hosted on GoDaddy.com.

Assuming a hosted web site www.mysite.com which you connect to using the FTP
username johndoe, you should create the following .htaccess file in the
directory you wish to secure:

------- begin .htaccess -------
AuthUserFile /home/content/J/O/H/JOHNDOE/html/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "Password Protected Area"
AuthType Basic

<limit GET POST>
require valid-user
</limit>
-------- end .htaccess -----------

replacing the capital "J/O/H/JOHNDOE" with lowercase versions of the first
three letters of your username followed by your whole username. This path is
the absolute pathn you see when you first log in to your FTP site, and the
root directory of www.mysite.com.

Then create a .htpasswd file using the Apache htpasswd utility or one of the
many internet .htpasswd generators, and save it at the location you
specified above. If you're making it by hand, the format for the file is
username:passwordhash, where passwordhash is generated using the Unix
<crypt> command.

Good luck.
/m