topic Re: htaccess password Linux in Operating System - Linux

htaccess password Linux

Duffs — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:32:31 GMT

Hi,

Running Redhat AS Release 4 here.....

I've setup a .htaccess file /var/www/html/.htaccess

AuthType Basic
AuthName "restricted stuff"
#AuthUserFile /home/secure/.htpasswd
AuthUserFile /var/www/html/.htpasswd
Require user duffs

I've also setup a passwords file /var/www/html/.htpasswd

duffs:zADvPn52quUMM

And I've also modified the /etc/httpd/httpd.conf file directory:

Options None
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AuthType Basic
AuthName "restricted stuff"
#AuthUserFile /home/secure/.htpasswd
AuthUserFile /var/www/html/.htpasswd/
Require user admin

I then stopped and restarted httpd

Now... it DOES prompt for a username/password - however it never accepts it. It just keeps prompting me for a username/password. I've even deleted and recreated the password file like so:

htpasswd -c /usr/local/apache/password/passwords username

I'm 100% sure of the username/password - but it never lets me in!!!!

Any ideas?

R,
D.

Re: htaccess password Linux

Ivan Ferreira — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:39:18 GMT

Try with mod_auth_dbm or mod_authn_dbm depending of your apache version.

AuthType Basic
AuthName "My Private Files"
AuthDBMUserFile /var/www/authdb
AuthDBMType DB
require valid-user

# htdbm -b -TDB authdb username password
# htdbm -l -TDB authdb

Re: htaccess password Linux

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:11:27 GMT

Shalom,

I will confirm the changes in httpd.conf are required to get this function working.

SEP

Re: htaccess password Linux

Duffs — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:23:15 GMT

Hi,

Excuse my lack of apache familiarity here but I have made the changes that I think you were recommending (below); maybe you can confirm where I have gone wrong here?

Options None
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AuthType Basic
AuthName "restricted stuff"
#AuthUserFile /var/www/html/.htpasswd/
AuthDBMUserFile /var/www/authdb
AuthDBMType DB
Require user duffs

#htdbm -b -TDB /var/www/authdb duffs duffs
Error opening database /var/www/authdb
APR does not understand this error code

Re: htaccess password Linux

Duffs — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:25:53 GMT

Hi,

Case resolved. The modules that you recommended were not actually required and after some deliberation discovered that the configuration actually worked when I changed the '' directive to ''.

Thanks anyway for the responses.

Duffs

Re: htaccess password Linux

Duffs — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:49:09 GMT

Case resolved as outlined above.
R,
D.