.htaccess

Anon

I am runing a win2k server win apachie 1.3.6
i have tryed just about everything, I think the config is ok but apachie just ignores the .htaccess

any help would be very welcome.

Anon

Go to: http://www.geocities.com/akindele/
Read the tutorial: .htaccess User Authentication

Richie.

Anon

ok read that had most of those steps done already but apache still just ignores the .htaccess what am i doing wrong.

ok http:config
AccessFileName .htaccess

<Ifmodule mod_userdir.c>
UserDir "C:/Apache/htdocs/test/"
</Ifmodule>

AllowOverride All

<Directory "c:/Apache/htdocs/test">
Options followSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

then type this into the .htaccess

AuthUserFile c:/apache/htdocs/test/htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dir/null
AuthName MembersOnlyArea
AuthType Basic

and it still just gost to the index page

i have made it work before on a unix server
but just can't seem to make it work on win2k

Anon

forget prev post rebooted the machine and it all works fine now 🙂

thanx for the help Richie

Anon

hi! One question.. but .htaccess works on M$ SO?? Thanks

piersk

Originally posted by Anon
hi! One question.. but .htaccess works on M$ SO?? Thanks

What do you mean by M$ SO?

berus

oops.. sorry!
I would say Microsoft!!

jerdo

.htaccess works on windows systems when you use Apache for your webserver.

berus

yes! I use Apache.. but too many people says that on microsoft system the file .h* doesn't works.

jerdo

They work just fine you just have to be creative to get M$ notepad (and others) to let you create one. You will most likely have to name it x.h then go to a command prompt and rename it .h Also if you want to use htpasswd just use the utility that comes with Apache to do so (should be in the install directory in bin), unfortunately you can't take .htpasswd files from Unix and use them since Windows uses a different encryption method for the password.

berus

ooh, no problem for this.. on windows I test the page only.

The utility is htpasswd.exe?? True?
But the note says that for windows sistem is forced the MD5 encryption.. it's the same of the server Linux!?!?!

Thanks!!! Bye

jerdo

The windows version uses a different encryption than the linux/unix because the windows OS does a different encryption. So you can't transport the htpasswd files between windows and linux, unfortunately you will have to create a separate file for each OS.