[Zimwy]

Hey,
I have a question about Weblock, the prefpane that enables password protection on your hosted web pages. Everything works beautifully, except when people with Windows IE try to load my page, they get "Page Cannot Be displayed". Works fine on Windows mozilla, works fine on everything for macs. Any ideas?

gabe

[clam2000]

can we get a link to the program? There are a couple ways it could do the password protection, and we can't help you much if we don't know which.

--will

[Zimwy]

Yeah, sorry, here's the link:

http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/15579

Thanks for your help.

gabe

[clam2000]

ok, can you post your .htaccess file?

what this piece of software does is create a file named .htaccess in the folder you specified. you won't be able to see this file normally (starts with a .), but you can view it by:
1) opening up a terminal
2) typing 'pico ' and then dragging the folder onto the window
3) it will put in a path to the folder, type '/.htaccess' afterwards, and hit return

then copy that output.

the .htaccess file is one of the ways apache does password protection. It should work on all browsers, so there's probably something that needs to be tweeked.

--will

[Zimwy]

Thanks so much. Here's my htaccess file:

## This file was generated by Weblock 1.5.1 (Digital Cow Software)
## on Aug 7, 2003 at 12:44 PM
## See Weblock's Help/Tutorial for limitations on hand editing
## For technical assistance, please email weblock@digicow.net

## General Password Settings
AuthType digest
AuthName "Protected"

## User file location and authorized users
#AuthUserFile "/Users/gtaubman/Sites/.htusers"
AuthDigestFile "/Users/gtaubman/Sites/.htdigestusers"
#Require user

## Group file location and authorized groups
AuthGroupFile "/Users/gtaubman/Sites/.htgroups"
Require group Jeep

## Address Settings
#Order deny,allow
#Deny from all
#Allow from

## Applies to all of the above
#Satisfy any

[clam2000]

odd, that looks like it should work.

is there some way to specify basic authentication via weblock. if there is try that, if there isn't then you'll end up doing it via commandline

I have no idea if that is the problem, but I have basic authentication working for windows clients, and the file is pretty simple:


.htaccess:
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted"
AuthUserFile /path/to/file
Require valid-user

the /path/to/file file is made by typing htpasswd /path/to/file username
it will prompt you for the password (if the /path/to/file doesn't exist you need to run it as htpasswd -c ...)

the file will look like:
username:encryptedpassword
username2...


--will