Securing a PEAR Install with .htaccess

[Ricky55]

Hi

 

I am very new to PHP but I have just been following a tutorial that required PEAR to be installed on my server. I installed PEAR fine using the go-pear.php script and I now have the web front end working and I've got the packages installed that I needed.

 

I am however getting a message across the interface saying "Warning: This package management website is not protected with a password, this is a MAJOR security risk."

 

It provides a read me file with some instructions on how to secure using an htaccess file but I've tried this and I can then no longer access the front end once its on the server.

 

I have installed PEAR to a folder called pearInstall, I have attached the code for the htaccess, I have tried uploading this file to both the site root and the pearInstall folder.

 

What am I doing wrong?

 

Thanks

 

$ echo "
AuthUserFile $(pwd)/.htpasswd
AuthType Basic
AuthName \"Web-based PEAR Frontend\"
Require valid-user" > .htaccess && htpasswd -c .htpasswd admin