.htaccess problem

External Since: Aug 18, 2003 Posts: 2

Hi all,

First of all, sorry for the long story, but I hope it will make my problem
clear and leaves as little questions unanswered as possible.

I'm experiencing a problem with .htaccess that seems to be quite common.
Unfortunately, after spending hours of searching, I haven't been able to
find a proper solution yet.

My goal: I want to password-protect just one directory on my server, using
..htaccess and .htpasswd
The problem: Every time I visit the directory, a login-box appears and after
trying to login for three times, I get an "Authorization Required" error
message.

In my httpd.conf I've got the line:
AllowOverride All
and:
AccessFileName .htaccess

This is the the entire content of my .htaccess file:
--
AuthUserFile /root/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "Enter password"
AuthType Basic

require valid-user
--

And this is how my .htpasswd file looks like:
--
alwin:<bunch of characters>
--

This .htpasswd file has been generated by using the htpasswd command in my
Apache's bin-directory. Permissions on both files are set to 777, just to be
sure that this isn't coursing the problem. The path names are correct. No
other .htaccess files exist on my system. And yes, I typed the password
correctly. I'm using RedHat 7.0 and Apache 2.0.45.

Is there anyone who can tell me what the problem might be?

Thx in advance,
Alwin

External Since: Jul 01, 2003 Posts: 47

"Alwin" <alwin.RemoveThis@vhl.tudelft.nl> wrote in message
news:bhp5oh$d6l$1@news.tudelft.nl...
> Hi all,
>
> First of all, sorry for the long story, but I hope it will make my problem
> clear and leaves as little questions unanswered as possible.
>
> I'm experiencing a problem with .htaccess that seems to be quite common.
> Unfortunately, after spending hours of searching, I haven't been able to
> find a proper solution yet.
>
> My goal: I want to password-protect just one directory on my server, using
> .htaccess and .htpasswd
> The problem: Every time I visit the directory, a login-box appears and
after
> trying to login for three times, I get an "Authorization Required" error
> message.
>
> In my httpd.conf I've got the line:
> AllowOverride All
> and:
> AccessFileName .htaccess
>
>
> This is the the entire content of my .htaccess file:
> --
> AuthUserFile /root/.htpasswd
> AuthGroupFile /dev/null
> AuthName "Enter password"
> AuthType Basic
>
> require valid-user
> --
>
> And this is how my .htpasswd file looks like:
> --
> alwin:<bunch of characters>
> --
I have just had this problem and thanks to help from this group I found the
answer

First check your Error log - if you have an error message like
[Fri Aug 15 05:56:31 2003] [error] [client 10.69.70.202] guest: not a valid
FDN:

Then you might find that this is caused by either mod_auth_ldap or
mod_auth_nds

If you are running SuSE linux then it will be in the
/etc/httpd/suse_addmodule.conf and suse_loadmodule.conf

also at the start of the .htaccess file you need to add the followiing line
AuthAuthoritative on

Hope this helps

Mike.