Trying to get htaccess to work...or...man, what am I doing wrong!

[Anthony Hologounis]

That was it!

the missing piece was this in the htpd.conf file

<Location /test/>
AuthName "restricted stuff"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /var/www/test/.test
require valid-user
</Location>



Thanks !

Anthony



Phil Mattison wrote:

>You're on the right track. Try this:
>
>Create a Location within your vhost definition in httpd.conf:
>
><Location /test/>
>AuthName "restricted stuff"
>AuthType Basic
>AuthUserFile /var/www/test/.test
>require valid-user
></Location>
>
>Create the password file:
>/usr/bin/htpasswd -c /var/www/test/.test <user-name>
>
>Hint: don't put the auth file in your DocumentRoot path.
>--
>Phil Mattison
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