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Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 15:12:46 -0500
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Subject: [users@httpd] HTACCESS FIle ?

Hi,

I know this has probably been discussed before but...
yes that's right....DUCK! Another Apache Stupid Newbie
question....eeeeek! <giggle>

Below are the instructions I received from a friend of mine
to set up access control for the apache webserver
for folder level access.

I set it up....created the .htaccess file via PICO
as the superuser....and it doesn't work.

Can anyone tell me what Im missing ?

PS:  Yes the password file is sitting in the users directory
that is mentioned below.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

1.) To set up a password protected folder,
you first create a .htaccess file within
the folder you want to protect, that
contains the following:

AuthType Basic
AuthName your_realm
AuthUserFile /Users/username/nameofpasswordfile
require valid-user

2.) Replacing "your_realm" with the name for
your protected realm and the AuthUserFile
path with the path to the file that
contains the username/password combinations.

3.) Then, to create/add users to the user/password
file, use the following command line operation:

	htpasswd [-c] passwordfile username
	(the -c creates a new file if you need to do so)

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