Hope this is easy to solve as it making me feel rather silly.
i have a .com hosted o a shared windows server, my root. in my root i have my index.php and a folder called "admin".
All i am trying to do is use my index.php to greet visitors and block anybody from accesing, posting to and linking to any thing within my admin folder, whilst allo i have tried .htaccess in the "admin" with deny all and today i found out that GoDaddys windows server takes no notice of .htacces file and i have to use Web.config instead :-
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.web>
<authorization>
<deny users ="*" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
</configuration>
is what i have tried in "admin" after readin topics on it plus somthing simpler in root