Im trying to get a login/pass prompt when you try and go to my web site. I have read the apache docs on auth and it says to make a .htaccess file. I did this and its still not working. Can someone help me plz?

Here is my htaccess file, it is located in the
/usr/local/apache/htdocs dir which is my root dir for apache.

I have created the password file with the user luger with the
htpasswd.



<Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs">
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Rale"
AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/passwd/password
Require user luger
</Directory>

What do you mean by "not working"? Is it at least asking for a username and password? Please be more specific as to the symptoms.

Sorry, when i goto the main site it does not get prompt for anything. It just displays the page fine, I have went through my httpd.conf and made sure all the AllowOverride were set to All and that didnt help either, not prompt for login or password.

IF you need more info then that just tell me

Thanks for the reply.

Hmmmm... The directives look OK...

Do you have any other options set for that same directory that may be conflicting with the auth setup? Don't just check for AllowOverride (that applies to .htaccess files), check for any directives that apply to the directory in question or its parent(s).

Some distros have nasty habits of smacking something stupid in their version of the default config files for many programs (I guess, to make them "foolproof", security wise). I had to change 3 things to get X working over the network on my RH7.2!

Have you tried doing the same thing with .htaccess files, just for the sake of an experiment?

I have tired putting it in both the httpd.conf files and in a .htaccess files and neither work.

I have make some changes and now if I tail the error log file i get
this message.


[error] [client 32.97.110.71] need AuthName: /

and i cant get to my web page. Any suggestions?
I got apache from the apache web site and im using the default
httpd.conf from the src.