I am setting up a personal website and I would like to be able to share certain files with friends (e.g. photo albums or documents). Of course, each of the files should only be accessible to certain people, for example with a password or a private address.

I would like to have a simple system, easy to maintain. I'm quite sure that Wordpress would let me know do something but keeping a Wordpress installation just for sharing a few files per month seems too much work.

I am thinking of using the Apache capabilities for folder or file password protecting. Is this the best idea?

Or would it be better just to block the directory navigation so that only people with the full path for each of the files can download them?

Thanks!