Well, your .htaccess file looks ok (apart from the fact that the password
file should not be in a web directory).
Try adding AuthConfig to the httpd.conf file as below:
<Directory /home/httpd/html>
AllowOverride AuthConfig .........
Also make sure that httpd.conf contains the following line:
AccessFileName .htaccess
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: Gaurav Agarwal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 9:10 PM
To: linux Newbie
Subject: .htaccess problems
Hi,
I am having problems setting up .htaccess security features on my
linux Red
Hat 6.0 machine running Apache web server.
The httpd.conf is the installation default , and i still have'nt
made many
changes to it ,
and i placed my .htaccess and .htpasswd file in /home/httpd/html directory
the .htacess file reads:
AuthName Webmaster
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /home/httpd/html/.htpasswd
require valid-user
and i also made sure that allow override is set to all, by editing th
httpd.conf file uch that:
<snip>
<Directory /home/httpd/html>
Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
# order allow,deny
# allow from all
</directory>
<snip>
I have read the Apache FAq too, but still unable to setup the security, as
the file is totally being ignored and i am not being asked the user/pass.
Please help !
Thanks a lot in advance,
Regards,
Gaurav.
