.htaccess in subdir of /usr/home/<username>/public_html

[Noah]

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 11:40:51 +0100, Dick Davies wrote
> * Glenn Sieb <ges at wingfoot.org> [0434 14:34]:
> > Noah said the following on 4/19/2004 12:39 AM:
> > 
> > >>AuthType Basic
> > >>AuthUserFile htpasswd.file.location.and.name.here
> > >>AuthName "Something to make sense"
> > >>require valid-user
> 
> > >thanks glen - looks like this is still not working.  No password Prompt
> 
> Maybe the browser is caching the credentials? What do the lines in
> access.log/error log look like?


Hi,

really good questions.

I even exitted all the browsers and restarted to make sure the credentials
were not saved.  there are no errors ending up in the error or access log files.


> > >here is what I did:
> > >
> > >cat of /usr/home/<user_name>/public_html/<subdir>/.htaccess
> > >
> > >--- snip ---
> > >
> > >AuthType Basic
> > >AuthUserFile /usr/home/<username>/public_html/<subdir>/.htpasswd
> > >AuthName "Protected Area"
> > >require user glob
> 
> That syntax is fine.
> How did you create '/usr/home/<username>/public_html/<subdir>/.htpasswd'?


/usr/local/bin/htpasswd


> 
> > Ok.. first off: Is there a user named "glob" in that .htpasswd file?
> > 
> > Secondly, can you check that you have the module mod_userdir.c loading?
> 
> The directory is being served so UserDir is obviously working.
> 

yes it appears that way.  I can see its contents.


> The permissions of the files were not the same in both of Noahs 
> posts.


yup I changed to the following:

from the directory /home/noah/public_html/<subdir>

-rw-r--r--   1 <username>  <username>   126 Apr 20 09:37 .htaccess
-rw-r--r--   1 <username>  <username>    19 Apr 18 21:34 .htpasswd


> 
> What user and group does apache run as?

user: www
group: www


> Give us an ls -l of both .htaccess and .htpasswd again, please.



look above please.


cheers,

Noah


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