[cobalt-users] Password Protect RaQ3 Directory Question

[Wayne Sagar <wsagar@xxxxxxxx>]

I'll preface this with the fact that I spent till 4:30AM last evening searching the archives, read the very informative Authentication Tuturial at http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs-1.5/tutorials/user.html 

Followed the directions step by step... created the files as directed.. carried out the commands as shown.. All worked.. I had an .htaccess  file in the folder that I want to protect (my stats from weblalizer) which looked like

> > > > > > > > AuthUserFile /home/sites/site#/foldername/.htpasswd
> > > > > > > > AuthGroupFile /dev/null
> > > > > > > > AuthName stats
> > > > > > > > AuthType Basic
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > <Limit GET>
> > > > > > > > require user username
> > > > > > > > </Limit>
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > I did the htpasswd -c /otherdir/.htpasswd pumpkin (changing the information as necessary) which created the nice .htpasswd file in the proper place..
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > All of which, in turn, brought up the authentication screen when I would attempt accessing the directory.. I put in the correct password and username and it would not take it.. 
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Cleaning out the .htaccess and .htpasswd files makes the folder available again... but no amount of changing of information seems to make this work.. 
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Done as root (had to, stats folder will not allow me to write to it without logging in as root) 
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > All done in an ssh session (thank you all)... Any ideas here why this is not working?
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > RaQ3 all updates successfully installed, name based single ip server, SSL enabled for the sitename site... (not this one) SSH enabled same same.. 
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Do I need to chown the .htaccess and/or .htpasswd files? 
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > TIA
> > > > > > > > WS