Alexander Wallace([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello there, I hope you can excuse my ignorance in these matters... > > In order to protect certain html dirs with a password, I was told by a > good member of this list to make sure that I had the mod_auth enabled in > httpd.conf. Which I do. > > Thend I was told that I need an .htaccess file which I created with > htpasswd in /home/myusername/.htaccess... > > But when i create the file and look for > http://www.myserver.com/~myusername i get: > > Internal Server Error > The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was > unable to complete your request...
The .htaccess file is put into the directory you wish to protect: ie /home/public_html/linux/.htaccess the first line of my .htaccess files tells apache where to look for the .htpasswd file. Such as AuthUserFile /home/my_home_dir/.htpasswd -- Never say "OOPS!" always say "Ah, Interesting!" _______________________________________________________
