Hi All
I have an issue where i set up htaccess on a folder ona virtual server i'm hosting. i'll use the following as the example. lets say the root directory for the virtual server is /home/user/htdocs/

in that directory there is a frequent_foto folder. this is not to be password protected but it is. inside frequent_foto is a folder called members which is password protected and works a treat. but what happens is when you access
http://virtualsite.com/freequent_foto/members you get prompted for a password, thats what i want. but say i go to http://virtualsite.com/freequent_foto it then turns around asking for a password and it shouldn't.

the config files are below. any help would be great.

.htaccess
AuthUserFile /home/user/htdocs/frequent_foto/members/.htpasswd
AuthName "Authentication Required"
AuthGroupFile /home/user/htdocs/frequent_foto/members/.htgroup
AuthType basic
require group fletchers

.htgroup
fletchers: member

.htpasswd
member:RKWrUeZDkltRY

htaccess works fine on the webserver as other virtual servers use it and no problems are encountered.
the only change i made to httpd.conf is as follows.


<Directory />
Options SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory "/home/user/htdocs/frequent_foto/members">
AllowOverride AuthConfig
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

Hi,

Here is the configuration from my virtual host, im not sure what you are doing wrong but its worth a try.

<Directory "/www/docs/myhost.nametakenaway.com" >
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Only I May Login"
AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/webpass
Require user maj
</Directory>

i tried what majeztik suggested but those settings did not make any changes at all. all it did was take away the authentication window and give me an empty page saying i'm not authorised to view the page. is anyone else able to shed some ideas?