Directory protected

Perhaps this problem is not related to any possible mistakes in your
..htaccess file !
Yes, first check if apache can access the documents (as Davide Bianchi
suggested earlier).
On my computer I changed ownership (with 'chown') of all the files to
someuser.www-data.
Just make sure that all files you want to be available via the webserver are
owned by the www-data user group.

Hope this helps
M.

"sp" <spiazi67.RemoveThis@netscape.net> wrote in message
news:dAw%c.215898$OR2.10013595@news3.tin.it...
 > I've create a <directory> directive.
 > I've add :
 >
 > AuthType Basic
 > AuthName "By Invitation Only"
 > AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/passwd/passwords
 > Require valid-user
 >
 > Then when I go to the url of the protected area , it's all right and a
popup
 > windows appear for authentification.
 > Then if the user is a valid user, appear a page with the list of the file.
 > But when I
 > click a file or dir of this page, an error page appear. It seems that
apache
 > don't found the file. Also if I write after authentification the filename
in
 > the url, the same error appear?
 >
 > Can you help me?
 >
 > Thank you,
 >
 > SG
 >
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Martijn said the following on 09/09/2004 21:08:

 > On my computer I changed ownership (with 'chown') of all the files to
 > someuser.www-data.
 > Just make sure that all files you want to be available via the webserver are
 > owned by the www-data user group.

As long as "others" (user/group/others) have permission to view it, it's
not necessary to be owned by the user or group apache runs at. Look at
the default icons suplied by Apache, they're probably owned by root. As
long as the permission is 644 (or at least 004) everything is ok.

It doesn't hurt if you do as you sugested, it's just not necessary.

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