> just my two cents. The command 'htpasswd -c /passwd/passwords famsite' > will
> do two things: create the password file called passwords in the > /passwd
> directory, and add the user famsite to it. So, the directory > /passwd must
> exist, and you did that. However, passwords is a file and > you said you
> created that directory. This is wrong. If it existed as a > file then
> htpasswd would recreate it (with the -c option) but I don't > think it would
> work if passwords was a directory.> > Because you're doing all this as root I
> don't think it's a permission > problem. However, as others pointed out,
> because the passwords file will > have to be accessible by the user who runs
> Apache, then you will need to > sort that out later.> > Hope this helps.
> Also, if you type just htpasswd with nothing else you > should have a nice
> help.> > Giulio
AAhhhh - Thanks Giulio!
That was the problem I feel pretty dumb now :)
I deleted the password dir, then chmoded 777 passwd instead,
re ran the command and htpasswd created the user and password AOK.
Thanks again, now on to step two...
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