modssl and htaccess

[Michael O'Brien]

Hi,

I am running apache 1.3.23 with modssl. I have setup a htaccess file in a directory, 
but it isn't being picked up. I have set the 
 
Directory /   
Options FollowSymLinks  
AllowOverride AuthConfig
/Directory   

I seem to remember that I might have to set somthing in the SSL options in the virtual 
host section of my httpd.conf 

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
  
Thanks in advance for any suggestions that you can provide

cheers
Mike   

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RE: modssl and htaccess

[Boyle Owen]

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

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