Hi all,
I have been trying to set up access to certain users using .htaccess on Fedora core 4. This is what my .htaccess file looks like with chmod to 644, the owner is root, and group is apache.

AuthUserFile /var/www/html/.htpasswd
AuthName "Members only"
AuthType Basic
require valid-user

I am a little confused on what I need to setup in my httpd.conf file. This is how it is listed in my httpd.conf file at the moment:

#
# AccessFileName: The name of the file to look for in each directory
# for access control information. See also the AllowOverride directive.
#
AccessFileName .htaccess

#
# AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
# It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
# Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
#

#
# The following lines prevent .htaccess and .htpasswd files from being
# viewed by Web clients.
#
<Files ~ "^\.ht">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>

#
#

I get the login to pop up when I try to access the area but it does not seem to recognize the password. I set up the .htpasswd like this which is also chmod 644, owner is root, and group is root.

htpasswd -nm username >>.htpasswd

Then I enter in my password.

If anyone can give some advice I would really appreciate it.

Thanks,
Nazs

fc4 webserver is most likeley apache2
generally in that case you can find info at http://www.apache.org

what you can do with is this page:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/auth.html
especially
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/how...ttingitworking

try doing what is says there - that will get you cracking :-)

Thanks Nathanael.
I have read over those docs again and again and still cannot get it to work correctly. I just don't get it. The login area comes up. It just seems like it will not recognize the password. This is driving me crazy. If anyone else has ideas please post them.

Thanks,
Nazs

I am having this same problem. On mine nothing is happening. I followed the directions from these sites. http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess3.shtml and http://www.tools.dynamicdrive.com/password/

I am confused

.htaccess tutorial
http://www.deluxnetwork.com/linux/guides/htaccess.php

thanks

and apache is running as which user?

i suggest you do the following:
assuming httpd is running as the user apache, if it's running as another user for e.g. nobody, change it correspondingly.

also Add the following line to server configuration file httpd.conf, inside of the <Directory> block for the www.yourhostname.com host:
restart httpd and access your website again. if you experience trouble have a look at or Check the server logs in /var/www/httpd/* for clues.

ok, I have finally got it. Thanks

Lol I have tried everyone's suggestions. And I want to say thank you to everyone. But it still is not working. Here is what is in my error log in /var/log/httpd/error_log


[error] [client xx.xxx.xxx.xxx] MySQL ERROR: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
[Mon Aug 28 15:34:05 2006] [error] [client xx.xxx.xxx.xxx] MySQL user johndoe not found: /


I am sorry if this sounds like a dumb question but I don't have mysql running. Does it have to be running for .htaccess to work?

Thanks,
Nazs

No, you donot need mysql running to use .htaccess, BTW, What page were you trying to see when you got the error, seems to me like, the webpage you are accessing uses mysql. Why don't u put a simple html file inside the directory you want to configure .htaccess with, this will simplify the troubleshooting.

It seems your web server is using mod_auth_mysql. You will need to uninstall it or comment it out in you httpd.conf file in order to use .htaccess.

rpm -e mod_auth_mysql
apachectl restart

best of luck!