Cross platform htaccess issue

Having been a died in the wool *nix Apache bod for years I find myself
in the position of having to use the dreaded Windoze box to develop.
XPPro with 1.3.27.

My clients ISP uses RedHat with 1.3.27.

Using .htacces.......

Whilst I get the dialog, none of the u/p pairs work at all.

I've ensured that all of the relevant groups, passwords, and .htaccess
files are in *nix format and ftp'd in ascii, but to no avail.

No access to error logs, btw!!

Anybody?

Simon Caldow <simon.caldow@email.com> wrote in message news:<bj1o4e$s1n$1@hercules.btinternet.com>...
> Having been a died in the wool *nix Apache bod for years I find myself
> in the position of having to use the dreaded Windoze box to develop.
> XPPro with 1.3.27.
>
> My clients ISP uses RedHat with 1.3.27.
>
> Using .htacces.......
>
> Whilst I get the dialog, none of the u/p pairs work at all.
>
> I've ensured that all of the relevant groups, passwords, and .htaccess
> files are in *nix format and ftp'd in ascii, but to no avail.
>
> No access to error logs, btw!!

Use the -m option to htpasswd to md5 encrypt the password. The unix-default
crypt() algorithm isn't recognized on win32. See:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/programs/htpasswd.html

Joshua.