.htaccess question protect my php test environment

I have to apologies about this posting in advance so please
don't flame me too bad for being off topic.

Question:

I want to create an .htaccess file to protect my files

I did the passwrd -c /directory/file frank

the set a password and then confirmed the password

I created a .htaccess file with vi and put this in it.

AuthName "restricted stuff"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /var/password/frank

require valid-user

then in the redhat http server utitily under server settings

I went tot he virtual directory section and created a new
virtual dir called virtual 0 and check marked the box at the
bottom for .htaccess protection.

I restart the server and then go to another computer and put in
the URL and no password box comes up.

:(





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Hi,
It's htpasswd and not passwd. As many others on this group i don't use
the redhat config system it's lame. You will be better off editing
httpd.conf and adding an AllowOverrides directive.

best regards

Frank Tudor wrote:

>I have to apologies about this posting in advance so please
>don't flame me too bad for being off topic.
>
>Question:
>
>I want to create an .htaccess file to protect my files
>
>I did the passwrd -c /directory/file frank
>
>the set a password and then confirmed the password
>
>I created a .htaccess file with vi and put this in it.
>
> AuthName "restricted stuff"
> AuthType Basic
> AuthUserFile /var/password/frank
>
> require valid-user
>
>then in the redhat http server utitily under server settings
>
>I went tot he virtual directory section and created a new
>virtual dir called virtual 0 and check marked the box at the
>bottom for .htaccess protection.
>
>I restart the server and then go to another computer and put in
>the URL and no password box comes up.
>
>:(
>
>
>
>
>
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Frank Tudor wrote:
> I have to apologies about this posting in advance so please
> don't flame me too bad for being off topic.
>
> Question:
>
> I want to create an .htaccess file to protect my files
>
> I did the passwrd -c /directory/file frank

The above is wrong, the below is right....

htpasswd -c /path/to/file username

>
> the set a password and then confirmed the password
>
> I created a .htaccess file with vi and put this in it.
>
> AuthName "restricted stuff"
> AuthType Basic
> AuthUserFile /var/password/frank
>
> require valid-user
>
> then in the redhat http server utitily under server settings
>
> I went tot he virtual directory section and created a new
> virtual dir called virtual 0 and check marked the box at the
> bottom for .htaccess protection.
>
> I restart the server and then go to another computer and put in
> the URL and no password box comes up.
>
> :(

Make sure you are allowing enough override for .htaccess to work. Can't
help with the GUI...never used one.

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Frank Tudor wrote:
>
> I restart the server and then go to another computer and put in
> the URL and no password box comes up.
>
Add this to the [virtual]host's section:
<directory "/virtual_0/path/whatever">
AllowOverride AuthConfig Options
</directory>

and restart httpd.

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