.htaccess user authentication problems

[alexhob]

I am trying to using a .htaccess file to password protect some files on my webserver(Mac OSX 10.3). I have followed 3 online tutorials (including apache.org), which all basically said the same thing. I have come up with the following three files and located them all in the root folder of the webserver. However I am receiving no prompt box when I navigate to the root folder. Can anyone explain? Thanks.

.htgroup:
user-list: brett alex

.htpasswd
brett:F22Aa9KWMOWDk
alex:A.1HUhXVGUEEo

.htaccess
AuthUserFile /Users/admin/Sites/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /Users/admin/Sites/.htgroup
AuthName Please login
AuthType Basic

<Limit GET>

require group user-list

</Limit>

 

[rosenk]

Do you have an [tt]AllowOverride AuthConfig Limit[/tt] (at least) in your apache configuration file for your root?

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#allowoverride

 

[machinemen]

One thing, at least on the way Apple configures Apache... you can't use a URL like this:

http://www.whateveverdomain.com/~admin/site.html

Or that won't work. You have to use a real virtual host/subdomain that does not use the ~ method of getting to the directory.

Same goes with CGI processing, SSI processing, etc. So a url like

accesstest.yourdomain.com which is defined in Apache to go to /Users/admin/Sites is the way to test.

Hope this helps!

Bill