Password protecting a directory outside of wordpress.

I have a site that used Wordpress, and I have a directory outside of wordpress that I wish to use - but I wish to password protect this folder, Can anyone advise me as to how I do this - so that it will not interfere with the Wordpress site.

This folder contains only a xml file that I wish to read/write and access thru a .exe file on the local system.
What would be the format of the connection.


Many thanks in advance - hope someone can help.


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I do not have access to IIS 7 i am using windows 8

 

Ok - thanks I got that far - now can you direct me to a similar tutorial on how to protect the directory.

Apologies - I am new to this .... and thanks

 

Thank you so much all of you - that was a great help.

 

Hi, I have the same question and tried the referenced KB arcticle. Unfortunately it doesn't work for me. I get this error message:

Config Error The configuration section 'security' cannot be read because it is missing a section declaration

If I use a simple deny rule, I can still access other files in my folder directly. What I want is that regardless of what file, I want a login page first to protect access to and files in that folder.
Do you have an example I can use?

 

This is the web.config I have in the folder:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.web>
<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms loginUrl="logon.aspx" protection="All" path="/" name=".ASPXFORMSAUTH">
</forms>
</authentication>
<authorization>
<deny users="?" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
</configuration>

It gets me the logon page when accessing the folder, but allows access to each file inside the folder.