.HTACCESS problem

djumaka

Hi there!

I came up a strange problem with my apache .htaccess file. I made it as is shown below, and addes the file a.pw in the current directory as is shown below too. But the entered username and password which I was promted didn't work. Why? How to fix this?

TIA, Djumaka

.HTACCESS file

AuthName "Admin"
AuthType Basic

AuthUserFile a.pw

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

a.pw file

bob:bobby

mysql_query

Hi. First off, if that is the syntax of your .htaccess file, I can see why it doesn't work 😃. Seriously though, the syntax is like this:

AuthUserFile home/YOU/ whatever/yoursafedir/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "please enter your password"
AuthType Basic

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

Also, you password holding file IS NOT a.pw, it's .htpasswd.

Another thing. .htaccess and .htpasswd have be in separate directories, and if they are in the same directory, you must still specify iy. Where it say AuthUserFile, YOU MUST PUT IN YOUR COMPLETE UNIX PATH, INCLUDING .HTPASSWD just like I did in the example.

Also, I hope you know that the password in the .htpasswd file has be encrypted. For example, bob:bobby would look like this:

bob:acFt.VFNyGxdo

Hope this helps, good luck.

jerdo

The thing left out in that answer is you can't just create a file and type in a username and password. Use the htpasswd utility that comes with Apache to create the .htpasswd file. This creates an encrypted password that Apache can read, it doesn't read plain text passwords so well.