Apache2: showing password protected directories
 

Hello

I have a number of password protected folder on my home server. They are all sub directories of a directory which everyone has access to. The server auto indexes each directory.

Eg: everyone can access http://blah.blah.com/~hamish/ but the sub directory http://blah.blah.com/~hamish/protected/ has a .htaccess file in it requiring a password.

At the moment, if you are in http://blah.blah.com/~hamish/, you can't see the "protected" directory.

I would like to be able to see the folder link of the protected folder so I can click on it and then enter my password. At the moment, have to type in the full address (http://blah.blah.com/~hamish/protected/), and then put my password in, before I can see inside that folder.

The question is, how can I show the password protected folder in the non-password protected directory?

I think it is something to do with AllowOverride, but I'm not quite sure how that works.

Thanks in advance
Hamish

You will need to set the Indexes option in the Options directive.

Do you know what I need to set it to?

thanks
Hamish

yes, "Indexes" - ie you need a line like:
Options Indexes

Within the <Directory> directive that used to control the directory (or parent directory) you are having problems with.

Hey, thanks for that.

I have put that in the <Directory> part for the directory in which the protected directory lives (ie http://blah.blah.com/~hamish/ )

However, it still doesn't show the protected directory in that folder.

Any other suggestions?
Hamish

This seems odd. Does it show non protected directories?

Yeah, it shows all the non protected directories. Just not the protected ones.
Is it not an override thing?

hamish

I have never seen this to be honest. The only reference I can see to anything like it is in the 2.1 docs:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.1/mod....showforbidden