Whoa! I fixed it. If anybody runs into this same error, here's the
page that I learned about what to do:
http://textpattern.com/faq/173/password-protected-directories-with-htaccess
Apparently when you have authentication, it needs to have a 401 page,
which isn't accessible since the htaccess file disables it.
On Apr 21, 12:41 am, Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Apr 20, 9:19 am, "b logica" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 4:06 AM, Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > I tried this...now I get a 404 error. It was working with the two
> > > blocks. Weird.
>
> > Try RewriteRule ^/grades[.*]? - [L]
>
> This causes neither /grades/ nor /grades/csv/ to work, whereas before
> just /grades/ worked.
>
>
>
> > > When I remove the .htaccess file within /grades/csv/ it works. The
> > > only problem is that we need that password protection...
>
> > Are you confident the AuthUserFile path is correct and accessible by apache?
> > Do you have anything under /grades/csv that has links to elsewhere?
> > JS, or CSS, or the like?
>
> I used my host's control panel (cPanel) to generate the .htaccess that
> contains AuthUserFile. It was working before moving CakePHP to the
> server. Just to be sure, I deleted it and recreated it using cPanel
> and still no luck. My guess is that somehow it's not being able to do
> that auth, but I'm not sure how. Within /grades/csv is just a plain
> php file that references a database. No references to JS or CSS--I
> even tried using an empty PHP index page, but it still doesn't work.
>
>
>
> > > On Apr 18, 8:16 pm, "b logica" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > You shouldn't use 2 blocks like that. Try this:
>
> > > > <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
> > > > RewriteEngine On
> > > > RewriteBase /
> > > > RewriteRule ^/grades - [L]
> > > > RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/ [L]
> > > > RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
> > > > </IfModule>
>
> > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > > I have CakePHP installed, and naturally it uses mod_rewrite to make
> > > > > the URLs clean. I made a modification to the htaccess file to allow
> > > > > me to ignore it for a certain directory. But then within that
> > > > > directory, I have an htaccess that defines password protection of
> > > that
> > > > > directory. Now I get a 404 error. How can I keep password
> > > > > protection, but allow it to function as normal? Here are my files:
>
> > > > > .htaccess in document root:
> > > > > <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
> > > > > RewriteEngine On
> > > > > RewriteBase /
> > > > > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} grades
> > > > > RewriteRule ^.*$ - [L]
>
> > > > > </IfModule>
>
> > > > > <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
> > > > > RewriteEngine on
> > > > > RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/ [L]
> > > > > RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
> > > > > </IfModule>
>
> > > > > .htaccess in the directory I want to protect:
> > > > > AuthType Basic
> > > > > AuthName "Restricted Area"
> > > > > AuthUserFile
> > > "/home/username/.htpasswds/public_html/grades/csv/passwd"
> > > > > require valid-user
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