>From: Michael O'Brien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Can anyone suggest some possible cause to why my htaccess file >is being ignored. The contents of my htaccess file is > > >AuthUserFile /apps/apache/bin/.htpasswd >AuthGroupFile /dev/null >AuthName "Restricted Site" >AuthType Basic > ><Limit GET POST> >require valid-user ></Limit>
AuthUserFile is supposed to point at the file containing your usernames and passwords. Did you really do: cd /apps/apache/bin ./htpasswd -c .htpasswd username when you were making your password file? (i.e. why call a password file nearly the same as the binary that made it and put it in a bin directory?) I usually have things like: AuthUserFile /home/site/admin/passwords/member_section.pwd Which is a whole lot less confusing... Anyway: Is your "htaccess" file really called "htaccess"? Is so, do you have: AccessFileName htaccess because the default is ".htaccess" and "htaccess" will not work on its own (all these leading dots are part of the filename, remember). Otherwise, check the error log and post the results. Rgds, Owen Boyle ______________________________________________________________________ Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl) www.modssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
