[KLUG Members] htaccess

[Joe Budzynski]

It seems that your having your "AuthUserFile" point to the wrong file. 
It should be pointing a file named ".htpasswd" in the same directory 
that your ".htaccess" is in.  This file will contain the username and 
hashed password for authentication.

When I was setting this up for my own site, I found the following 
tutorial extremely helpful...

http://www.euronet.nl/~arnow/htpasswd/documentation.html

The author of that tutorial also has a tool to create the hashed password...

http://www.euronet.nl/~arnow/htpasswd/

Hope this helps...

Joe

Russell Dillenburg wrote:
> I'm trying to get htaccess to work for some basic http authorization. 
>  
> [root@NS admin]# cat .htaccess
> AuthUserFile /var/www/.htaccess
> AuthGroupFile /dev/null
> AuthName "Login"
> AuthType Basic
>  
> require test
> [root@NS admin]#
> When I go to this page it is prompting me for user/pass, but when I type 
> it in it just fails and after third try comes back with authorization 
> failed.
>  
> Any suggestions?
>  
> Thanks,
> Russell