.htaccess files

joel112 · 09-30-2003, 09:19 AM

i have a problem with a simple authentication system, the htaccess file is as so:

AuthUserFile /home/www/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName EnterPassword
AuthType Basic

require user joel

and i have my htpasswd:

joel:<password>

but i get the login box, and if i type in the values, it fails to login, just returs incorrect password

trickykid · 09-30-2003, 11:18 AM

Try something like this:

Code:

AuthUserFile /home/www/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName EnterPassword
AuthType Basic

<Limit GET POST>
require valid-user
</Limit>

trickykid · 09-30-2003, 11:19 AM

A good tutorial if you need one: http://linux.lk.net/pages/htaccess.html

joel112 · 09-30-2003, 11:28 AM

i have got a weird problem, i found out the original problem was that i spelt htpasswd filename wrong, but i corrected that, but now it just goes straight into the directory, nomatter what location i login from