Hello, Try with this configuration:
<Directory /home/username/public_html/Private> AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /home/username/public_html/Private/.htpasswd AuthName Test Require valid-user AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> chmod 644 /home/username/public_html/Private/.htpasswd chown root:apache /home/username/public_html/Private/.htpasswd Note: You dont need to store password file in a publicly accessible directory, i think it can be a security risk. -Anam ________________________________ From: John D <javadevelope...@gmail.com> To: users@httpd.apache.org Sent: Friday, 2 March 2012, 0:48 Subject: [users@httpd] public_html directory authentication I'm running Apache/2.2.3 on a centos 5 server and trying to setup authentication for a subdirectory in a user's public_html folder. I created a .htaccess file and .htpasswd file in that subdirectory with permissions 0644. But now the subdirectory does not show up on the web page. In my httpd.conf file I have: <Directory /home/*/public_html> AllowOverride AuthConfig </Directory> I've also tried adding this to the httpd conf file <Directory /home/username/public_html/Private> AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /home/username/public_html/Private/.htpasswd AuthName Test Require valid-user </Directory> but that also doesn't seem to work. The only thing that works a bit for me is to set AllowOverride to None in the /home/*/public_html directory config but that just enables the folder to show and does no authentication. Can anyone help me? Thanks
