Abstract: A simple method and apparatus for posting hypertext documents to a hypertext server so as to make the hypertext documents accessible to users of the hypertext document system while securing against unauthorized modification of the posted hypertext documents. The hypertext documents form a portion of the World Wide Web and a process for posting hypertext documents begins with an author authoring the hypertext pages on a client computer, sending an add request to a server computer, causing the generation of a unique identifier for the author of the hypertext document, obtaining a charge authorization from the author, and sending a database entry request from the client to the server comprising the unique identifier, the charge authorization and the hypertext files comprising the document.