requiring authorization with htaccess

Neandrake

I have a site that I'm trying to password protect some sites. My main site is a subdomain of another site (i.e. me.notme.com). I keep my passwd file in a folder called /auth. I don't know what's wrong, but here's my htaccess:

[start]

AuthUserFile http://me.notme.com/auth/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName Admin
AuthType Basic

require user me

[end]

And I'm pretty sure my .htpasswd file is fine(only has one user). When I try to access the folder, I'm prompted for a user and password, but everytime I enter the information, it fails. I've tried many different encrypted passwords and nothing new happens. I think that my site is hosted on a virtual server, so would that cause problems when trying to access htpasswd? I don't understand what's wrong! I'm entering the correct password! No, the caps isn't on! I've spent like 5 hours working on this and searching google, but nothing helps.

juschillinnow

Let me guess... your server is on a windows operating system???

Neandrake

It's possible, I've no clue. What should I do if it is?

Originally posted by juschillinnow
Let me guess... your server is on a windows operating system???

juschillinnow

Well hopefully it's not. The reason is that I've never been able to get it to work on a windows system and have tried for dozens of projects.

Windows just doesn't support the output headers I suppose. Returns something like Header: http....I forget but it doesn't do it right and therefore just keeps displaying the stupid popup box.

If it's Unix you're in luck. Type in www.phpbuilder.com and then got to articles and show all and there is an article somewhere about how to do .

Don't have the time right now otherwise I would give you one of my files.

If I get time later I'll email it.