Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 00:20:49 -0400 From: Glenn Sieb <ges@wingfoot.org> To: Noah <admin2@enabled.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .htaccess in subdir of /usr/home/<username>/public_html Message-ID: <408353A1.8010105@wingfoot.org> In-Reply-To: <20040419041439.M56886@enabled.com> References: <20040418231354.M545@enabled.com> <40830EC8.2070608@wingfoot.org> <20040419010449.M37374@enabled.com> <40835069.3090108@wingfoot.org> <20040419041439.M56886@enabled.com>
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Noah said the following on 4/19/2004 12:18 AM: >thanks for your response but there are two files that I am using .htaccess and >.htpasswd . Might you be getting the .htaccess and .htpasswd file permissions >mixed up? > > Not at all. Both need to be world readable, or at least readable by the user running apache. >there is still no cure at this point since i check the file permissions and >both .htaccess and .htpasswd are both world readable. I even moved the >.htpasswd to the same subdirectory with world readable permissions and still >there is no password prompt from my browser. I go directly to the directory >index of /usr/home/<username>/public_html/<subdir>/ > >here are the permissions of the files: > >-rw-r--r-- 1 <username> <username> 101 Apr 18 16:09 >/usr/home/<username>/public_html/<subdir>/.htaccess > >and > >-rw-r--r-- 1 <username> <username> 21 Apr 18 16:09 >/usr/home/<username>/public_html/<subdir>/.htpasswd > >any other ideas? > > So when you go to http://yourserver/~yourusername/subdir it doesn't prompt you for anything? Check it against this: AuthType Basic AuthUserFile htpasswd.file.location.and.name.here AuthName "Something to make sense" require valid-user Best, Glenn
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