Hi All
I have just set up htaccess on one of the virtual hosts i'm running. before i set it up the sire would come up wwwwdotmysitedotcom/admin. this is the page i want to restrict access to. what i did was add the following to httpd.conf

<Directory />
Options SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory "/home/tr0064/admin">
AllowOverride AuthConfig
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>

I also tried swapping the access order from deny, allow to allow, deny but this had no effect. the contents of my .htaccess file is below:

AuthUserFile /home/tr0064/admin/.htaccess
AuthName "Authentication Required"
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthType Basic
require valid-user guest

htpasswd details below:
guest:4Gu/q2xKwBQsQ
dale:.4JluYuSaty.Y

the problem being when i go to the restircted page which with the above changes brings up the log in prompt, it does not accept the passwords. I have tried even creating a local password just incase it might be trying to locate a user profile but I cant seem to see whats going wrong. basically the prompt just comes back saying the password is incorrect asking for the correct one.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

Problem has been resolved. the following changes were made

httpd.conf changes as follows:

<Directory />
Options SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory "/home/tr0064/admin">
AllowOverride AuthConfig
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

.htaccess changes as follows:

AuthUserFile /home/tr0064/admin/.htpasswd
AuthName "Authentication Required"
AuthGroupFile /home/tr0064/admin/.htgroup
AuthType Basic
require group groupname

.htpasswd changes as follows:

guest:mb2.TD1h3kN8w
sue:kkdwIRQmgg2Jk

.htgroup changes as follows:

groupname: guest sue