Net Help Getting Started - .htaccess

[mtorbin]

Hey all,

I haven't done this in quite some time so I'm VERY rusty. I appreciate the understanding.

I am trying to create an .htaccess file that will simply prompt me for a password. This is what I have so far:

AuthUserfile /var/www/html/[myFolderName]/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "[myFolderName]"
AuthType Basic

<Limit GET>
satisfy any
order deny,allow
deny from all
require user mtorbin
</Limit>

Should this not just simply prompt me for the password I set up in .htpasswd? Unfortunately, it isn't doing that. Now I haven't touched my httpd.conf file yet but that shouldn't matter, right? This is just simple Apache 101. Please advise.

- MT

 

[Farab]

There's different ways of doing it, but here's what I've got:

In .htaccess:
AuthUserFile /etc/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName &quot;Any old message you want to appear on the popup&quot;
AuthType Basic

require user MyUser

In httpd.conf:
<Directory &quot;/directory/stem/where/.htaccess/files/might/exist&quot;>
Options none
AllowOverride AuthConfig
</Directory>

The above directory doesn't need the be the specific one, it could be a higher level and then .htaccess in an of the subs will control it.

 

[mtorbin]

Thanks! That did the trick. Now I just have to play with it and configure it. I think the part that I was missing was the second half (the &quot;in httpd.conf&quot; part) which was confusing me.

Odd question:

I know this exists but I can't seem to find it. Is there a way to delete a filve at the unix command prompt? More specifically, I want to go in and delete .htpasswd and then create a new one. The only other way I know to do this is to &quot;pico&quot; into the file and clean it out myself, but I don't think that's the best way of accomplishing this task. Any suggestions?

 

[mtorbin]

Let me step back a second because I think I typed too quickly. I have the popUp box showing up but for some reason, I cannot get it to read my password. I'm currently working on that now and I'll let you know what happens if I fix it. I've even tried it in the default ASCII password format and it doesn't seem to want to recognize the password. Any ideas?

 

[mtorbin]

So this is the error message that I'm getting:

[Mon Dec 01 09:13:37 2003] [error] [client ipAddress] (2)No such file or directory: Could not open password file: /[myDirectoryPath]/.htpasswd, referer: http://[ipAddress]/
[Mon Dec 01 09:13:37 2003] [error] [client ipAddress] user mtorbin not found: /[myDirectoryPath]/index.html, referer: http://[ipAddress]/

What should I conclude from this:

1) My chmod is incorrect for .htpasswd?
2) My directory path is wrong?

Please advise.

- MT

 

[mtorbin]

I just solved the problem! Phew! This is what I did. I simply changed the CHMOD so that it mirrored that of .htaccess. As soon as the browser could read it, BINGO!

Thanks all!