Not sure if it matters, but all the AddTypes in my httpd.conf have a
period in front of the extension:
AddType video/x-ms-wmv .wmv
As to the password question, what does the rest of your .htaccess
file look like? Here's an example based off one I've used.. In this
case /path/to/some/directory/ is the directory where the protcted
files, .htaccess, and .passwd file are.
## Start file
AuthUserFile /path/to/some/directory/.passwd
AuthName "Password Area"
AuthType Basic
<Limit GET POST PUT>
require valid-user
</Limit>
<Files .passwd>
deny from all
</Files>
## End file
to create the .passwd file you can do something like
> htpasswd2 -c .passwd [myusername]
(possibly just htpasswd, not htpasswd2)
hope this helps,
Scott
On Jun 28, 2007, at 3:37 PM, Winterlight wrote:
I have a number of Godaddy web sites. I have chosen Linux servers
on three of them, and a windows server on one of them. Last May, I
was notified that my site had been moved to a different server.
This resulted in my password .htaccess page no longer working. I
had a page with a number of links to .wmv files, which were located
in a folder named /video. After the move when I clicked on the
links I got a page with this on it.
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I checked the paths, changed the path, removed, and then recreated
the site, but no matter what I did the wmv files would not play.
Then I discovered the same problem on every Linux site I had hosted
with Godaddy. So I tried changing the video file extension to avi.
The files played. Media player reported the wrong file type, and
then played the file. So I knew something was wrong on the server.
So I called Godaddy, and told them that .htaccess was no longer
protecting my directory, and I could not play wmv. files. It moved
up the tech chain until it reached an "expert" who came up with this.
In order to resolve the issue with .wmv not playing, you will need
to create an .htaccess file that registers the MIME
type.The .htaccess file should have line that looks like the
following:
AddType video/x-ms-wmv wmv
And of course, this doesn't solve my .htaccess protected folder
problem.
Does anybody have any idea what is wrong with their Server?
thanks
