basic auth in apache

CodeGeek · 04-09-2004, 08:08 PM

i'm running apache 1.3.29 and i'm trying to get authentication setup for a virtualhost. i did what i've always done, create the passwd file and all, but for some reason it's not letting me use a .htaccess file for it...so i'm using httpd.conf, it prompts for username/password but when i try to login, nothing happens. this is what i did:

Code:

root@codegeeks:/usr/local/phpMyAdmin$ htpasswd -c .htpasswd admin
*enter password*

and in the httpd.conf i'm doing this:

Code:

<Directory /usr/local/phpMyAdmin>
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "phpMyAdmin"
    AuthUserFile /usr/local/phpMyAdmin/.htpasswd
    Require admin
</Directory>

any ideas on how to get this fixed?

david_ross · 04-10-2004, 01:12 PM

I think you want:
require user admin

If you can't use htaccess files then you probably need to change the AllowOverride variable for the directory it is in within httpd.conf

CodeGeek · 04-14-2004, 09:27 AM

thanks for the help, i forgot about adding user on the Require line. and .htaccess works now, too.

thanks again.