Yes, @thh, I had thought so. I will try submitting a service ticket to the hosting admin. Thanks. BEGIN MY INSERTION AuthType Basic AuthName “Sinuswerte Ka? Hwag Road Please” AuthUserFile somepath/somepath/.htpasswd require valid-user END MY INSERTION and that broke the Serendipity-default .htaccess...

@thh, Hi! I tried adding the following lines outside of the # BEGIN s9y [ ... blah ... ] # END s9y BEGIN MY INSERTION AuthType Basic AuthName “Sinuswerte Ka? Hwag Road Please” AuthUserFile somepath/somepath/.htpasswd require valid-user END MY INSERTION and that broke the Serendipity-default .htacces...

Thanks @thh. I will try inserting
your suggested lines again,

I would like to password restrict my Serendipity installation but the app's home directory already has a default .htaccess file that doesn't seem to allow any tampering [the install breaks when the app is called]. How can I password protect the Serendipity home directory on Linux/Apache? Danke!