htaccess - password prompt every time a page is loaded

[csbdeady]

Hi there

I've a weird problem with .htaccess - I've set up a protected directory: mysite.com/subdir/

Within this are three files : a.html , b.html and .htaccess

If I go to mysite.com/subdir/a.html I get the login prompt correctly. I enter the correct username and password and am let into the site - a.html is displayed.

If I now go to b.html I get the login prompt again.

How do I "set" htaccess (or whatever is causing this) to only ask me to login once for every file in /subdir/ ?

Thanks!
-Colin

 

[csbdeady]

oh perhaps I should also say that I'm using .php files not .html in case it makes a difference.

My .htaccess is:

<Limit GET>
AuthUserFile /.../.htpass
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName &quot;SHECANe&quot;
AuthType Basic
require valid-user basingstoke
require valid-user easthamp
</Limit>

I'm not sure why but I had to specify the names of the users individually in separate require lines - without them I couldn't log in.

 

[Wullie]

Hi mate,

The most likely reason for this is because you have all the attributes within the <Limit> </Limit> containers.

The only ones that should be in that directive is the require lines.


AuthUserFile /.../.htpass
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName &quot;SHECANe&quot;
AuthType Basic

<Limit GET>
require valid-user basingstoke
require valid-user easthamp
</Limit>


Hope this helps Wullie

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