Hello everyone,
My website is hosted by a company using Apache 2.2.23. They offer,
through cPanel, a simple functionality for password protecting a
directory. This functionality creates an .htaccess file with the
following lines of code:
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Subscriber-only Content"
require valid-user
AuthUserFile "/home/bankrup2/.htpasswds/public_html/subscribers/passwd"
My problem is that I want users who have logged in to the
password-protected directory to be able to view a listing of the
content of the directory and its subdirectories. None of the
directories have index files, so under normal conditions, an attempt
to access the directory would yielding a listing of the directory content.
However, the present coding (or my hosting company's configuration)
does not allow that. An attempt to view
http://www.cbar.pro/subscribers/ (the protected directory) yields the
following error message, even when the user has logged in through
password access:
403 Permission Denied
You do not have permission for this request /subscribers/
I have added the following two lines of code to the .htaccess file:
Options +Indexes
IndexOptions ShowForbidden
I have tried adding it to both the top and the bottom of the existing
four lines of code, in case the order in which the commands are
executed makes a difference. However, I still get the same error message.
I searched the archives and found a message asking the same question
(Subject: [users@httpd] Letting users see directory contents of
protected directory) but the thread ended without a resolution.
I publish a newsletter, with access to the protected directory
limited to subscribers, and I would very much like to allow
subscribers to view the directory contents, as I have a lot of
research files for them, and this would be another way they could
access those files.
My hosting firm's setup allows the listing of directory content for
directories that are not password-protected (and that don't have
index files). You can view the directory content for
http://www.cbar.pro/free/ So this is definitely being caused by the
addition of the password protection.
Thank you for any help you can give me,
Robin Miller
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