.HTACCESS will not work properly

Wont work :(

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Please help me out here as I need it to work badly. I have went to <snip> to get some stuff to add in it. I tried just the "Ban users by IP" and it won't work. It's not sending the info to the config file or what ever...

I tried going to the config file to ban IPS, it worked. I'm currently using the 2.0 version. What ever the version is Lol. The HTACCES file did work, but now it wont. I need to make a password to a certain directory which is my development directory and it won't work at all. I need the .HTACCESS file to work. Know of what the issue could be?

Thanks
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[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 10:01 pm (utc) on Dec. 22, 2004]

[Brett_Tabke]

First, welcome to the forums. We generally do not do links to commercial websites promoting software (too many spam issues [webmasterworld.com])

Best to just install your on htaccess and go for it:
[webmasterworld.com...]

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EDIT: No- I wasn't meaning I wanna ban bots. I mean users and I'd like to use the password directory and custom 404, 500 etc. How would I fix the server so I can do is easier by placing the .htaccess file on the server and writing deny from all

order allow,deny
deny from **.***.***.***
allow from all

etc

[jdMorgan]

For password-related questions, I'd recommend that you start here [httpd.apache.org].

Jim