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To do this you must use a .htaccess file.

You can find a great how-to document on doing this here.

There are also other uses for .htaccess files that can be found on that page
as well.

Note: If you use .htaccess files to protect a page, and also have a JVM running that can access that directory, you should use Tomcat password protection as well, because someone could in theory bypass your .htaccess file by specifing your port number in the URL. You can find out how to use password protection in your JVM here:

http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/realm-howto.html