Re: Web Auth.

[MKlinke <mklinke axsi com>]

On Sunday 01 June 2003 01:10, Brent L. Cox wrote:
> ok it does prompt now but when I enter the user ID and
> Password I ask for it again like it was incorrect and
> after 3 times I get auth. req.
>
> I used this command to create mt .htpasswd file\
>
> htpasswd -c .htpasswd blcox
>
> this is my entry in the httpd.conf file
>
> <Directory "/var/www/html">
>       Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
>       AllowOverride All
>       Order allow,deny
>       Allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> and this is my .htaccess file
>
>
> AuthType Basic
> AuthName "Secure area"
> AuthUserFile /home/blcox/.htpasswd
> require valid-user
>
>
> can someone please tell me what Iam doing wrong.
 
Unless you're running Apache as root I don't think it'll be able to 
access your password file in a user's home directory unless you 
modified the defaut /home/user* permissions.

Regards,  Mike Klinke