[Sarah31]

Hello. I was hoping that someone may be able to help me out here. I have been trying very hard to get one diectory on my webspace passowrd protected. I managed to finally get it set up with the application Apache Protect and an online tutorial.

Now that I have .htaccess functioning I cannot login and I have been unable to find any sort of info on what to do.

Since I have no clue what may be the problem I am unsure which files or excerps of files that you will require so please let me know and I will get what you need.

So far I have made the required modifications to /private/etc/httpd/ http.conf and /private/etc/httpd/users/ *.conf. As far as I know my .htaccess file is configured properly.

[jay3ld]

The .htaccess needs to have this

Code:
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Members Only Access"
AuthUserFile "/private/etc/passwd/protected"
require valid-user

and the protected file needs to do a username:password
the password needs to be encrypted. you can find a .htaccess password protect password maker using google.

[Sarah31]

Thanks. I was under the impression that placing the user file just about anywhere except the same directory should have worked. I moved it to /private/etc/password/ and it worked great.

Again Thank you very much I was going nuts.

[Sarah31]

Just one follow-up question with respect to logging. I assume in order to log out you have to remove the cookie that is made when you log in?

[jay3ld]

yes if your computer saved the cookie you will need to.

but you dont have to put it their. its just what i thought looked the best.
i didn't even know that the directory existed. on my webserver online i got a folder under the root i use to keep files of all the places that use password protected directories. so i thought it would work. Most likely a typo in ur htaccess or something that didn't let it work right.

[nycdunz]

how would i access /private or whatever if i have a webhost? not sure what i should name my passwd file and how to manage to put it in the proper directory?