This is the first time I've used an .htaccess/.htpasswd file.
I have mostly used IIS so I just set the permissions in windows.

Anyway I made a folder in the root of my site called secure and one underneath it pass (/secure/pass)

I went online and generated an .htaccess and .htpasswd file.
I uploaded them to the server

Here are the contents:

.htaccess - in secure folder


.htpasswd - in pass folder


Now I'm prompted for a username/password but it won't accept it.
Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Kenny

With the 'AuthUserFile' try an absolute path rather than relative, because of Apache's vhosts setup, chances are the relative path is '/www' rather than your actual directory.

Also, your password needs to be encypted. Try:

test:$apr1$F1Y2H...$S9fbDhtQ/gCH3D57x2Fqr1

instead of test:test

swordz

Ok I'll try that path now.
The password was actually encrypted but I thought I'd leave it plain text it for troubleshooting, I'll fix that now too.

Thanks,

Kenny

Password is now encrypted again.
I still can't get in though.

I've tried:
/secure/pass/.htpasswd
/www/secure/pass/.htpasswd
/.htpasswd

and none of them work

If your domain was 'mydomain.uuuq.com', your path would be:



Make that reflect your own domain.

Does, "m/y/d", stand for today's date?

Nope, it's the first 3 letters of the domain name, each one a directory.

If your domain were 'moon.uuuq.com', your path would be:

I read through this, and I finally figured out how to get my .htaccess to work.
Now I can actually have boards, that would be password protected, to avoid abuse.

Thank you, Bread, swordz, Kenny M., and moon.

With this i'll finally be able to get my website setup in a way that it will work.

Cheers,
- Angelus