hey guys...
i cant pass through the authentification in my "protected" side of the site

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here is my .htaccess :
AuthUserFile '/path/to/my/.htpasswd'
AuthName "authentification"
AuthType Basic
<Limit GET>
require valid-user
</Limit>
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.htaccess Permission & owner = 644 owned by apache:
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 2358 2005-03-28 07:13 .htpasswd
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apache -> in modules.conf :
LoadModule access_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_access.so
LoadModule auth_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_auth.so
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apache -> httpd.conf :
<Directory "/path/to/protected/section/of/mysite.com">
AllowOverride All
Options None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
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In my Site.com-Error.log
user webmaster not found:
(13)Permission denied: Could not open password file: /Members/index.php
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thats pretty weird...cause im sure settings are OK to open and read my file...
anyway hope you'll get an idea

thanks again
Luke.

Did you setup the user webmaster in your htpasswd file?

yeah,
actually i already had 40 members in it and no one works :/

are you also authenticating via a PHP interface? The reason I ask is cause that doesn't look like an Apache log entry, and it is referencing a php webpage. Try creating a simple text file in the base of the password protected directory, then try and access that file rather than index.php, see if that works. If it does work, your problem is in reference to whatever php app you are trying to access.

as u told me, i created a text file in my members directory...

here is the logs


[Sat Apr 2 05:36:30 2005] [error] [client x.x.x.x] (13)Permission denied: Could not open password file: /path/to/my/.htpasswd
[Sat Apr 2 05:36:30 2005] [error] [client x.x.x.x] user webmaster not found: /membres/test.txt

.htpasswd ::
webmaster:gZnIsEp06Guzw


i even tried to chmod 755 and its still owned by apache

have a clue?

thank you
Luke.

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My problem is solved thank u helping me guys

Luke.

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What was the fix? I'm sure others having a similar problem would be interested in knowing how you managed to solve it. Glad it was resolved ;-).

hey sorry i was pretty busy recently

had to reinstall my mail server --> qmailrocks

ok check out your config in httpd.conf
you must check out AllowOverride settings you can set it to All or AuthConfig

i did : AllowOverride AuthConfig

and then double check your .htaccess & .htpasswd
change owner to what ever your apache is named for me it was www-data
if it doenst work check out permission set it to 755 first and then adjust it
chmod 755 /path/to/my/.htaccess
chmod 755 /path/to/my/.htpasswd

also chmod 755 and chown to apache user the folder where IS your .htpasswd

and permission bug should be fixed