Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote : > I want to restrict the access to my syweb site (web GUI for symon). > > # pwd > /var/www/htdocs/syweb > # ls -la > total 228 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root daemon 1024 Oct 27 12:44 . > drwxr-xr-x 3 root daemon 512 Oct 27 12:49 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 131 Oct 27 12:44 .htaccess > -rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 69 Oct 27 11:50 .htpasswd > drwxr-xr-x 2 www daemon 512 Apr 2 2008 cache > -rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 6287 Apr 14 2008 class_cache.inc > -rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 10478 Apr 14 2008 class_graph.inc > -rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 8937 Apr 14 2008 class_layout.inc > -rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 6193 Apr 14 2008 class_lexer.inc > -rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 3959 Apr 14 2008 class_rrdtool.inc > -rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 4394 Apr 14 2008 class_session.inc > -rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 2014 Apr 14 2008 class_text.inc > -rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 3591 Apr 14 2008 class_vars.inc > -rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 2414 Apr 14 2008 configtest.php > -rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 2542 Apr 14 2008 graph.php > -rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 19177 Apr 14 2008 graph_defaults.inc > -rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 4873 Apr 14 2008 index.php > -rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 5318 Apr 14 2008 setup.inc > -rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 95 Apr 14 2008 spacer.png > -rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 976 Apr 14 2008 symon.css > -rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 1760 Apr 14 2008 symon.png > -rw-r--r-- 1 root daemon 3233 Apr 14 2008 tools.inc > # more .htaccess > > AuthUserFile /var/www/htdocs/syweb/.htpasswd > AuthGroupFile /dev/null > AuthName Restricted Access. > AuthType Basic > require valid-user > # more .htpasswd
Apache is running in a chroot by default so the path you give to AuthUserFile is incorrect, it should be /htdocs/syweb/.htpasswd Bertrand
