Creating Accounts Downloads via http

Here's what I would like to be able to do. I have some links on my index page that go to another directory located in /var/www/html. When people click on the link it will ask them for a username and password and if they don't have one then they are to send me an email asking me for permission to download those files. How can I accomplish this? Please be specific.

 

try looking at the .htaccess files

 

Yep did that

Thanks for that input but I did that already. Maybe this will be more clear. When people click on a link I what Apache to ask them for a username and password and they don't have access I want them to send email an email requesting access. How can I do this?

 

I think you have to write a PHP script for this.

 

You could also avoid reinventing the wheel and get a downloads management software for sites like hotscripts.com