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RE: [cobalt-users] .htaccess doesnt do anything
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] .htaccess doesnt do anything
- From: "Patrick McNeil" <pmcneil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Oct 11 16:33:20 2000
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
yes the .htpasswd file was created.
-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John Cordeiro
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 10:24 AM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] .htaccess doesnt do anything
>I am trying to password protect a directory. I made the .htaccess file in
>the directory and put the following in it:
>
># Access file
>order allow,deny
>allow from all
>require valid-user
>Authname DirectoryName
>Authtype Basic
>AuthUserFile /home/sites/sitename/users/username/.htpasswd
>
>this is the exact syntaxt found on the cobalt.com knowledgebase. but it
>never prompts for the username/password.
>what am i missing?
>
>Patrick
Did you create the .htpasswd file in the users directory. That's sounds like
what you're missing.
type /usr/sbin/htpasswd --help for help
but try /usr/sbin/htpasswd -c /home/sites/site/users/username/.htpasswd
Must be SU
hope that helps.
Johnc
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