The access permisions are/were as you suggested. The directory was visible and accessible before I added the .htaccess file to it. Now it is visible and accessible only if I give the password. I just want to be able to see the directories from .. (one flight up), just to know of it's existance so I can click on it and be asked for the user/passwd instead of having to remember that it is also there and have to type the directory's name in manually.
I think that this is not a rights problem and certainly not a .htaccess problem per say but an apache problem with both mod_auth and mod_auth_digest (I've tried both). I am just looking for a workaround at this point. Has anyone out there had this work for them? ie. A passworded directory that shows up in Auto-Indexed; Apache served directory listings (before loging into the directory)? -- Chaim Keren Tzion | [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator " The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Dept. of Neurobiology " Tel: 972-2-658-5083 Inst. of Life Science " Cel: 972-2-54-652983 Jerusalem 91904, Israel " Fax: 972-2-658-6296 ...................... : ............................ Quoting Zvi Har'El <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Shalom Chaim, > > Your problem is simply setting unix access permissions (I assum you run a > unix > server, linux included, otherwise you wouldn't have written to this list > ;-)). > What you need is just to make the directory searchable, not readable, by the > apache user (normally nobody or apache in redhat), so just run > > chmod o=x directory_name > > If you really need a .htaccess file, you have to make it universally > readbable, i.e., > > chmod o+r directory_name/.htaccess > > BTW, read the apache error file, error_log: It should tell you about the > permissions problem. > > Kol tuv > > Zvi. > > On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 23:16:05 +0200, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote about "Apache > .htaccess Hides Folders": > > Using Apache2 with: Options +Indexes > > > > When I limit access to a subdirectory by putting a .htaccess file inside of > it > > the subdirectory disappears from the parent's directory tree. If I manualy > type > > in the name I get the expected authentication prompt. Is there a way to > allow all > > users to see the subdirectory in the tree but limit access to the > subdirectory's > > contents? > > > > -- > > Chaim Keren Tzion | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > System Administrator " The Hebrew University of Jerusalem > > Dept. of Neurobiology " Tel: 972-2-658-5083 > > Inst. of Life Science " Cel: 972-2-54-652983 > > Jerusalem 91904, Israel " Fax: 972-2-658-6296 > > ...................... : ............................ > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > > This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ > > > > > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > Dr. Zvi Har'El mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of > Mathematics > tel:+972-54-227607 icq:179294841 Technion - Israel Institute of > Technology > fax:+972-4-8293388 http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/ Haifa 32000, > ISRAEL > "If you can't say somethin' nice, don't say nothin' at all." -- Thumper > (1942) > Tuesday, 26 Tevet 5764, 20 January 2004, > 7:31AM > ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
