On Tuesday 03 June 2003 11:03 pm, Ron Horist wrote: > I am sure this has been asked before but due to the fact that > mail-archive.com has been down for days and will probably not be back up > for a few more days, I thought I would ask anyways.. > > I am installing vqadmin 2.3.5 and have followed the instructions line by > line.. If I following them when I try to go to > www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/vqadmin/vqadmin.cgi I get an access denied > page... Now if I do a chmod 644 .htaccess then I get the popup window > asking me for my user id and password, however if I type in my user id and > password it just keeps poping back up and asking me again... > > What am I missing??? I have changed my httpd config file, .htaccess file > to point to my vqadmin.passwd file.. > > Thanks....
Check the permissions on the vqadmin.passwd file. Also check the path to the password file in the .htaccess file. On RedHat 9, the htpasswd command (to create the password file) creates the file with user r/w permissions only. I have to add group and other read permissions with: chmod ug+r vqadmin.passwd Ken
