NEED HELP WITH .htpasswd and .htaccess

jpmm76

Hi all,

Can anyone send me an example of a .htaccess and a htpasswd
file....
I just need to configure 3 simple users for a Admin section
for which I have http authentication...

I cant get it working.... I suspect that my .htaccess and passwd
files are not OK...

I know this is very basic...but... anyway...
Please anyone show me an example....

Thanks a lot....

Paulo

TRJ

Example of .htaccess file in dir to password protect

AuthName "Your website name"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile "/your/path/to/.htpasswd"

require valid-user

Example of .htpasswd file located where you specify in .htaccess file (outside working dirs)
The encrypted password in this example is "password"!

username:eXCbyeeJC236A

If you have telnet/SSH access to the server, you can create the .htpasswd file by doing the following (replace username):

cd /your/path/to
htpasswd -c .htpasswd username
enter password when prompted (twice)

HTH
Terry

theeper

Also, to add a new user to the same password file, leave the -c out of the command line.

Your command would look like this.

htpasswd my_password_file new_user_name

or to keep in step with the previous example ...

htpasswd .htpasswd username

then it will prompt you to type in the new user's password twice.

Sxooter

You also need a line that says something like:

AllowOverride AuthConfig

in your httpd.conf or access.conf file.

then you have to restart your web server to make that change take effect. If you don't have root access to the machine you'll likely have to contact the sysadmin to get that configured.