Hi,

I'm trying to password protect one of my web accessable
directories and I can't get .htaccess to work in a Centos 5.1 box
Here's what I did

I created an .htaccess file with the contents:

AuthName "Restricted Area"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /home/mysite/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
require valid-user

and I uploaded it to the dir I want to protect. Then I created my password
outside of my web dir with the command: htpasswd -c .htpasswd pam
then followed password prompts, created my password.

So then I go to the site, and am not seeing any password required box,
I can see site without a login.

So then I figured it's not turned on in apache, and went to httpd.conf and changed
AllowOverride None to AllowOverride AuthConfig

When I reload, apache will not reload.

What am I doing wrong?
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Pam Astor wrote:

When I reload, apache will not reload.

What am I doing wrong?


I suspect your only fault is not checking the logs..
Right after you issue service httpd start,
go look at /var/log/messages and /var/log/httpd/*

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Morten
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