I have accomplished a lot thanks to several of you pointing me in the right direction. I am using PloneExternalFile and when files are uploaded by a user they are stored in the /var/www/html directory to be accessed through the Apache server. I have a cron job that executes a python script that will delete any Plone External Files that are older than 5 days. The next thing to do is somehow perform a user authentication when accessing files through the Apache server. Clients are going to access a file that is stored on the Apache server by an employee. The Client needs to enter their password/username to access their files. How would this be done if there are going to be several clients and they cannot have access to each others files? The problem that I am thinking about is that I would need to know the directory ahead of time that the employee is going to use to put the files in. I am certain there are also other issues that I have not concerned such as how to create the username/passwords. Either have the employee create them through the form to which they upload the files or already predetermine what their password is going to be and place it directly in a .htaccess file. Any suggestions? Thank You, Laura