a different .htaccess problem

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Joined: Jan 2002

Okay, I've created the directory I want protected.
I created the .htaccess file in that directory which is below:

AuthUserFile /home/user_directory/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName Login
AuthType Basic

require user confused

I've also created the .htpasswd file in the /home/user_directory/ directory using the

htpasswd -c .htpasswd confused

but....when I go to the site that is supposed to be password protected, nothing happens.

Are there any suggestions? Maybe fool with adding a new mime type? Please help and thanks in advance.

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Joined: Oct 1999

i cant say for sure that what you have is correct or not, but it looks right.

remember that apache needs to be configured to look for .htaccess files. i had a similar problem to you once and found i had to make some changes to httpd.cfg

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Joined: Jan 2002

that's exactly what it was...a change needed to be made in the conf file. I'll post the change once I return home (it's on my system there).

They have: 105 posts

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I added a directory block in the httpd.conf file for the site. The block is as follows:

AllowOverride AuthConfig

This will enable the authentication for the http://www.yoursite.com/path_to_directory

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