newbie .htaccess problem

[mancjew]

I have apache1.3.x/php4.2.2 running on mdk
I have a very similar .htaccess file and I've made my .htpasswd file with htpasswd -c .htpasswd username

in apache httpd.conf
i have <directory>
allowoverride ALL
just the default settings for /var/www/html/

but when i tried to log in, it doesnt work.(password not correct) I've tried from windows and linux machine.

any ideas?

Thanks

[bernouli]

AuthUserFile /path/to /your/.htpasswd
AuthType Basic

<Limit GET>
require valid-user
</Limit>

[mancjew]

Thanks, I've tried that before, but I get the same problem.
Heres some details of the setup

[root@celeron programe]# htpasswd .htpasswd rex
New password:
Re-type new password:
Adding password for user rex

[root@celeron programe]# cat .htpasswd
mancjew:qHmM6jXgjEA9Y
rex:AUOfFSBZd8BQg

[root@celeron programe]# cat .htaccess
AuthUserFile .htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "Alice bot"
AuthType Basic

<LIMIT GET>
require valid-user
</LIMIT>

[root@celeron programe]# ls -al
total 60
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Sep 9 20:22 ./
drwxr-xr-x 10 rex root 4096 Sep 9 04:23 ../
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Sep 9 03:12 aiml/
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 18353 Feb 11 2002 COPYING
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Aug 22 15:31 docs/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 125 Sep 9 20:23 .htaccess
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40 Sep 9 20:24 .htpasswd
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 3161 Aug 16 10:09 instructions.html
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1976 Aug 22 16:41 notes.txt
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Aug 22 15:32 sql/
drwxrwxrwx 5 root root 4096 Aug 22 16:31 src/

[bernouli]

try to change this

[root@celeron programe]# cat .htaccess
AuthUserFile .htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "Alice bot"
AuthType Basic

into

AuthUserFile /absolute/path/to/your/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "Alice bot"
AuthType Basic

[mancjew]

cool thanks that works.