.htaccess and .htpasswd

[Anon]

If I have a folder under my http://localhost which i want password protecting, I can create the .htpasswd file, but in the .htaccess what will the AuthUserFile path be? I've tried everything I can think of, from /localhost/.../.htpasswd to C:\phpdev3\www.....htpasswd
None work
What should it be?!
I am using Windoze and Apache.
Please help!
Thanks,
Edward Ludlow

[spursfootball]

Edward,

You're actually closer to the solution than you may think -- it's a combination of the two methods you have tried. The answer is that the slashes should be forward '/' rather than back '\'. It would read something like this:

AuthUserFile "C:/phpdev3/Apache/cgi-bin/.htpasswd"

Remember to not put the .htpasswd file in the root directory, but in something like /cgi-bin/ so others can't access the file.

Ben

[aragorn2]

This works for me

AuthUserFile c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\backdoor/.htpasswd