On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Pam Astor wrote:


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?

The syntax for auth stuff changed between Apache 2.0 and 2.2 (which is used in CentOS 5). In particular, you'll need a AuthBasicProvider declaration:

  http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_auth_basic.html#authbasicprovider

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