Trying to get htaccess to work...or...man, what am I doing w…

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, George Toft wrote:

> You need a .htpasswd file in that directory also. You are using the
> htpasswd command, so where is your .htpasswd file? Find it, and move it
> to /var/www/html/test
>
> George

I partly agree...
AuthUserFile ~user/.htpasswd

I don't like this file in a potentially web accessible location.
I ended up setting:
AllowOverride AuthConfig
*and*
<Directory />
AllowOverride AuthConfig
</Directory>

to get this to work after upgrading apache(to 2.0.36) recently. I don't
remember which one caused the problem.

>
>
>
> Anthony Hologounis wrote:
> >
> > I have a RH7.2 box with apache 1.3.22.
> >
> > /var/www/html is where the html docs live
> >
> > /var/www/html/test is the directory I want to protect
> >
> > I created a user file in my home directory ~/user
> >
> > I use htpasswd -c ~user someone to populate the access file
> >
> > There is an .htaccess file in /var/www/html/test
> >
> > it looks like this
> >
> > AuthName "restricted stuff"
> > AuthType Basic
> > AuthUserFile ~/user
> >
> > require valid-user
> >
> > It quite simply does not work.
> >
> > I read the docs here http://www.apacheweek.com/features/userauth and
> > here http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/faqs/RH-apache-FAQ/c135.html
> >
> > I have tried this in the httpd.conf file
> >
> > # This controls which options the .htaccess files in directories can
> > # override. Can also be "All", or any combination of "Options", "FileInfo",
> > # "AuthConfig", and "Limit"
> >

> > ###AllowOverride None                        this didn't work
> > ###AllowOverride AuthConfig               this didn't work either

> >
> > and yes, I removed the hashes when I tested it.
> >
> > I didn't think it would be this much of a pain.....aarrgh
> >
> > Anthony
> >
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