Authentication Help

[Anon]

Hi,

I need to put authentication to my web page in my Apache web server under Linux 6.2 OS. For that i have created a .htaccess file to my Directory and i have created password file also using htpasswd.
But my page is opened directly without prompting for username n password.Can anyone clarify me and suggest a solution where would be the problem.
ThanQ in advance
Tulasi

[kailien]

make sure .htaccess is world readable (644).

also, does your .htaccess look something like this:

#.htaccess file
AuthType "Basic"
AuthName "Protected Access"
AuthUserFile /home/httpd/html/secure/.htpasswd
<Limit GET>
require valid-user
</Limit>

lastly, in your httpd.conf, make sure you have this line:

AllowOverride AuthConfig