On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 11:51:17AM -0700, John Draper wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This finally works... So ignore that last message.... I first went to
> "conf" directory,
> created an "auth" directory, and I'm putting it in there.
>
> htpasswd -c /var/www/conf/auth/passwd edp
>
> # Here is where I set the permissions......
> chown root.nogroup /var/www/conf/auth/passwd
> chmod 640 /var/www/conf/auth/passwd
>
> Now, I need to setup the httpd.conf entry, and this is what
> I intend to use... Any comments?
>
> So, I would add this...
>
> <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin/secure">
> AuthType Basic
> AuthName "Password Required"
> AuthUserFile /var/www/conf/auth/passwd
> Require valid-user
> </Directory>
>
> To my httpd.conf file, right? I think this in effect just tells
> apache that anything
> I put into the "secure" directory, is going to ask for a username (edp) and
> password I had setup to use via htpasswd.
>
> Is this the recommended way to do this? Then from root, I would do...
>
> apachectl restart
Aside from the last command not working when running Apache under
chroot, which you should do, yes.
Joachim
