For an organization I'm in, I'm trying to create a members only section. We had one in a place where our site was previously located, set up by someone else, and we had to move and don't have that person's help anymore.

We didn't have one of those cheesy javascript password screens, either. I believe it was one of the usual ones that require login and pass.

I also had all the files from the old site location on my computer. I attempted to just copy them over to the new location, but it doesn't seem to work.

The last time I talked about this, people talked about .htaccess files, and someone posted a link about them. I remember I tried the things I read from that site, but it told me I needed to telnet into the site and make changes to the .htaccess files. Unfortunately, I can't telnet into the site at all.

Any help you guys can give me?