John Hiemenz wrote:
> On Friday 21 September 2001 11:15, Tim Wunder wrote:
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>>I execute, "locate .htaccess" and get
>>/var/www/cgi-bin/webcal/protected/.htaccess
>>
>>Cat /var/www/cgi-bin/webcal/protected/.htaccess shows
>>AuthUserFile /var/webcal/.htpasswd
>>AuthName WebCal
>>AuthType Basic
>>require valid-user
>>
>>/var/webcal/.htpasswd shows entries for nobody, admin, usholiday,
>>tpw, Temporary
>>
>>
>
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> Sounds like the password may be wrong between the docs and the
> .htpasswd file? Make sure .htpasswd is readable by all users, esp. if
> httpd is not running with root permissions.
>
> Try this From the command line:
>
> htpasswd /var/webcal/.htpasswd admin
>
> and set the password for the user admin.
>
Did that, no difference.
> If you get 'htpasswd not found' error, then prefix the command with
> your Apache/bin directory, ie if Apache/bin is located at
> /usr/local/apache:
> /usr/local/apache/bin/htpasswd /var/webcal/.htpasswd admin
>
> My htpasswd is in /usr/bin on my Caldera distro, /usr/lib/apache/bin on
> my SCO distro.
>
I changed permissions on the .htpasswd file in /var/webcal directory to
-rw-r--r--. It was owned by apache with group root. I changed its group to
apache, still no difference. I stopped and started httpd after each change and
reloaded the page in the browser.
Any other ideas?
Thanks,
Tim
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