> > I am trying to password protect a sub directory within the web space of a>
> > > domain that is serving site statistics of awstats generated pages. The
> > path> > to the dir is /home/user1/www/awstats. When testing, I am able to
> > get a> > username and password prompt for the front page of the site, i.e.
> > for> > www.mydomain.com, when I place the .htaccess file in www. But I
> > can't get a> > functional prompt for www.mydomain.com/awstats when I place
> > the .htaccess in> > the awstats dir. The login box comes up but it won't
> > accept my username> > password combo, even though it will accept it when I
> > have the same .htaccess> > file in the www dir.> > See:>
> > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/htaccess.html> > Your problem is
> > that you don't have AllowOverride set correctly for> the relevant
> > directory. But beyond that, you probably don't want to be> using .htaccess
> > at all. Just put the directives in the relevant> <Directory> section in
> > httpd.conf.> > Joshua.
Thanks Joshua,
I read the above DOC you posted thanks. Just to clarify, do you
reccomend that I use the <Directory> method in the main httpd.conf file
as described in the above, instead ot .htaccess?
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