apache authentication
 

I have created a user, and within their public_html directory, I have a small site, which I require users to be authenticated prior to gaining access.

Now I have set up the exact same site, which is located at /var/www and it works fine, but when I try to get it to authnticate using .htpasswd and .htaccess while using the fomat www.mydomain/~user/ it simply does not even ask for a user/pass.

As it works as expected in the /var/www location, then I would assume my .htaccess and .htpasswd files are configured properly.

Any ideas?

This might have something to do with your AllowOveride directive in httpd.conf. You have to specify that httpd.conf may be overided by .htaccess files.

Look for something like this:

Cool, that seemed to do it...

I didn't know that you had to explicitly define parameters for different directories.

I obviously had the parameters etc for /var/www but not for /home/user/public_html or whatever.

Cheers mate...

Glad it works. Usually all apache directives work recursively from your document root but I guess that the ~user directory needs to be explicitly defined.