Hi...thanks for viewing.

Let say i have a restricted webpages.
It will do a username and password pop up when access to these
webpages.

How do i do tat in Apache ...where the username and passwd is tied down to the server login..like when accessed on the PC in LAN ??

Pls advise...

To be prompted for a user name & password in ie certain directory's on your web server use .htaccess
It's easy enough to do, check out this http://faq.clever.net/htaccess.htm

amp2000

I did according to wat the website told me to.

When i tried to access the webpage, it never prompt
for any username or password.

Pls advise.

is there anything i must edit in the Apache ( httpd.conf )
file ??

In your .htaccess file make sure you have the correct path to your .htpasswd file.
If the path is correct & it still wont work try editing your .htaccess file like below

<Limit GET POST>
order Deny,Allow
allow from All
require valid-user
</Limit>

instead of

<Limit GET POST>
require valid-user
</Limit>


Also what tripped me up setting it up was the . before the file names.
You need to have the dot before both filenames or it wont work.
Double check there is a dot in the path to your .htpasswd file aswell in the .htaccess file

As for editing httpd.conf I dont think so, as far as I can remember anyway.

amp2000

check out this tutorial...

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplan...orials/1527/1/

is there any way i can link this webpage password protected to the normal server login like the normal LAN login ??

instead of creating new username and password again ...
just for the webpage access...

pls advise..

any solution ?

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/auth.html is the official document on apache authentication.

You have a number of choices of user databases for authenticating users. You can authenticate users using, mysql, ldap, local users...

The problem is finding an exhaustive list of these modules. http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/guide/s...h_modules.html
has a short list, but not the homepages for these modules. I would guess you need to find what authentication you'd like to use first. then find the module from the auth module list or on google, then install that module.

*WARNING!!* Do *not* use an apache module to authenticate users using they system passwords over a normal HTTP connection. That *might* be ok if you're using mod_ssl and HTTPS to encrypt the login.

As a scenario, we use auth_ldap http://www.rudedog.org/auth_ldap/ and mod_ssl http://www.modssl.org/ to authenticate users login to private sites and also use these same LDAP servers with PAM ldap and nss_ldap to authenticate system users. We also take further precaution by restricting by IP address using the httpd.conf settings. The apache module allows access to restrict users by groups and other arbitrary ldap attributes.

Hi. I am using Apache 1.3.12 with mod_perl 1.21-10.

How do i use the Perl/Apache module AuthenPasswd ?
How do i know AuthenPasswd module is in the mod_perl ??

pls advise..

check out http://perl.apache.org/ , try the suggestion in the FAQ that suggest using the Apache::Status module. It will tell you what's running.

If you do not have it installed you can get it from CPAN archives. See the download section of http://perl.apache.org/

Wonder u have any experience in the Apache module *AuthenPasswd ?

I installed and compiled the module and also followed the example given...still it doesn't work ...

It prompted for username and password. I typed in the correct
username and password. Still it didn't work. Any advise...!!!


I wanted password prompting when access to my webpage...
which will authencate against the passwords in /etc/passwd
Unix login.