What is meant by complete home path?

[Anon]

I've just learnt a bit about .htaccess files and got most things like redirecting to a custom error page etc working, however I am having a problem with the password part of it.

I have the .htaccess and the .htpasswd files in a folder called phplib, which has all my admin pages in, the problem is that I am not sure what is meant by full home path.

I have just got an apache server set up on my pc for testing and the url to get to the .htpasswd file is:

http://localhost/phplib/.htpasswd

is this not the full path, because it does not seem to work,
anyway this is the path the tutorial uses (below) should I have a users file?

AuthUserFile /users/boris11/public_html/other/.htpasswd

Sorry this is such a dumb question but I am a bit new to programming, thanks for any help.

-Neil

[Anon]

The full path is the actual location on the computer. eg. http://www.microsoft.com might actually be stored at D:\Webroot\public_html\ on a hard disk. You need the filesystem path to your space. On Unix, this is normally /home/[your_username]/ but it varies from host to host.

If you're using windows, you have to use \ instead of \ or / instead

eg. C:\webroot\ won't work
C:\webroot\ will
c:/webroot/ will, and even
/webroot/ may.

Hope that helps,

Danny