Hi,

I am running apache on redhat 9.

I have set up some simple directory acces where a password file, and users file is used to only allow visitors access to /www/html/ on my server.
The /cgi-bin/ is locked out as forbidden, as is the htaccess stuff.

Basically, when a person goes to www.mycompany.com/forum/index.php they get asked for a username and password combo.
IE, a small dialogue box comes up in the IntExpl browser.
Once entered correctly, they get the index.php page displayed correctly.

OK. On that same page, there is a "log on" box with a username and password field, and a 'login' button. (This needs a different un/password combination)

When they give this info and press login, the apache server for some reason askes the user again for the username and password combo as in when they first came to the site? in other words, IE brings up another dialgoue box. If they type it, they get in.
Is this because my PHP files are in another directory?

How do i make it so they only type the username and password once for the site, and once for the php login?

Is this a session thing when browsing??

Steve

Is the index.php calling a file in a different directory but in the same path? Try moving the rest of the php files to a completely different location.

-twantrd