".htaccess"

Labbat

Hello,
Recently I was playing with a free server, and it was quite simple to set up the ".htaccess" File..
Alls, I had to do is make the script, then make the ".htpasswd" File, and it worked...
Now, Im not going to use a free server for a number of reasons, Such as: Ill be buying my own server soon here, I just had a few unexpect expenses with my family here...
Secondily, they decorate your site with a bunch of their adds
(I guess thats how they get advertising)
Thirdly, most free hosts dont support PHP...

Anyways, right to the point:
I tried putting my ".htaccess" File, and my ".htpasswd" File on my personal Apache Server.....However, it didn't work...So I started reading tutorials on google.ca about getting it to work, but the furthest Ive got was "You have to tell apache to turn the .htaccess feature on " Then it went on to explain a few things I didn't really understand beneath that...(2 paragraphs)
Why does the Programmers/makers of Apache have to make everything such a pain in the *** hehe....Alright,

my question is, could some-one tell me kinda a step by step explaination of how to get my ".htaccess" File to work?
I understand I have to turn it on in one of the Config Files for Apache? I believe, but beyond that, Im not too sure, where or how .... Thanks 🙂

LordShryku

Telling it to allow htaccess would be done in the httpd.conf file, under the AllowOverride directive. Here's what the line looks like

#
# AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
# It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
#   Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
#
    AllowOverride AuthConfig

Depending on what you're doing, you'll put the options you want htaccess to be able to control in there.

Labbat

Alright, I understand that...
I think, hehe...
I only want to use it for the login, not IP Bans, or any of that other good stuff 😉 Ill give that a shot

Thanks

Labbat

Welp, Im looking for something that says

AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.

It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:

Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit

AllowOverride All

Well, I changed the end to AllowOverride All

But, I think I did change it here, I found something that matches what you said, (Ill post it at the end of the article)
I changed it, no .htaccess login pops up when I go to my directory on Apache...:Here:

Note : This is what I found : Is this what I should of changed?
The allow override part?

This controls which options the .htaccess files in directories can

override. Can also be "All", or any combination of "Options", "FileInfo",

"AuthConfig", and "Limit"

#
AllowOverride All

Labbat

Hey guys, I got my
' .htaccess ' to work....
http://142.59.59.29/www/admin/
However, this is what my htpasswd file looks like

admin:wLhGEkTk9tqkA

Now thats not my password....I used this thing I found off a website it said "Ecrypt Your Files here" Or something like that
so it said, enter your user name and pass word, so I entered
admin and k7YuHeFv

And it encrypted it too
admin:wLhGEkTk9tqkA

So it said to use that for my htpasswd file, so I did

Now I go to my URL, and enter that as my Password, and it doesn't let me login, because , I assume its thinking wrong password.... So should I just changed the encrypted B.s.
Too the password I want, or how does this work?

LordShryku

Passwords stored in the htpasswd files are MD5 hashes of the actual passwords.