I figured out the small typo in the path. Thanks for reading my request and suggestions.
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Jonathan Zuckerman <j.zucker...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 8:56 AM, testwreq wreq <testw...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hello, My goal is to password protect a few pages in one of the userdir > > (/home/users/vinda). And, I cannot get this to work. Any suggestions will > be > > welcomed! Below is the configuration in my httpd.conf file: > > <Directory /home/*/*/public_html> > > Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks IncludesNoExec > > Options +ExecCGI > > DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.htm > > AllowOverride AuthConfig > > Allow from all > > Order allow,deny > > AddType text/html .html > > AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .html > > </Directory> > > I placed .htaccess in (/home/users/vinda/public_html/labs) because this > is > > the directory I want to protect. > > Below are the contents of .htaccess and it has the .passwd file generated > by > > htpasswd apache command. > > AuthUserFile /www/home/users/vinda/labs/.htpasswd > > AuthName "Members Only" > > AuthType Basic > > require user lab > > When I call the page with http://hostname/~vinda/labs, I get the box to > > enter the username and password but then I can never pass this. The error > in > > the eerror log is: > > [debug] mod_auth_pgsql.c(774): [client 10.105.9.103] [mod_auth_pgsql.c] - > > missing configuration parameters > > [Thu Sep 10 10:35:32 2009] [error] [client 10.105.9.103] access to > > /~vinda/labs failed, reason: verification of user id 'lab' not configured > > Please advise. Am I missing any configuration? > > > > Thanks much:) > > > > A few thoughts: might need to put the .htaccess file that password > protects all the contents of a directory _outside_ of that directory, > since that file is required to determine where the authorized users > data is stored, and you currently can't access it until you _are_ one > of those authorized users... > > Also, really not a big deal but.. your subject implied that .htaccess > is broken. Chances are quite good that it's simply your understanding > of .htaccess which is flawed; everyone on this list is here because > they're happy to try to help but it might be nice to approach the > problem with the attitude "I would really appreciate some help > figuring your awesome free software out" rather than "Fix your shit". > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > >
