phpidiot5 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 It's not working. im trying to protect my site for just me and my friends but htacess and htpasswd files arent working.I am not prompted for a username and password. ive tried like 5 tutorials and none work. If anyone could possibly explain step by step id appreciate it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmax Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Not really enough information given for thorough answer... Try the following to get .htaccess working http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/htaccess.html Ensure you have an AllowOverride statement (if in doubt set AllowOverride All in the server config (httpd.conf) but ensure it apples to the area you're trying to secure - use a <Directory ...> or <Location ...> statement to wrap this) http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#allowoverride When this directive is set to None, then .htaccess files are completely ignored. In this case, the server will not even attempt to read .htaccess files in the filesystem. When this directive is set to All, then any directive which has the .htaccess Context is allowed in .htaccess files. Then, once working try the following for authentication ... http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#authtype (authname, require, etc...) http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/htaccess.html#auth - authentication example If you own the server and have access to the main server config this would be better done in the main server config file rather than using .htaccess. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/htaccess.html#when - when not to use .htaccess files Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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