creating password protected directory

dushyantgohil · 03-01-2013, 12:53 AM

Hi,

i want to create a password protected directory on my server, i have searched out many things for these on internet and i have got one thing is create .htpasswd file in the directory which i want to protect but its not working in my case.

Code:

AuthUserFile /home/<user_name>/html/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "Secure Area"
AuthType Basic
require valid-user

Thanks.

chrism01 · 03-01-2013, 05:54 AM

Actually, you put the .htaccess file there & the .htpasswd file somewhere safe that Apache can reach eg /etc/httpd/conf.
In any case, best practice is to forget .htaccess and put the directives in the relevant <Dir...> </Dir...> directives inside httpd.conf.

I'm assuming you are talking about using Apache to access the dir?

vishesh · 03-01-2013, 07:52 AM

Did you created /home/<user_name>/html/.htpasswd file and created users

htpasswd -c /home/<user_name>/html/.htpasswd <username>

Thanks