Protecting page with password on Apache 1.3.27

[siswjh]

I did the htpasswd -c /

http://www/passwd/password/user

as per instructions on apache.org then chmod 640 on directory passwd and changed group to nogroup. I added this:

<Directory /[URL unfurl="true"]www/htdocs/proftp-admin>[/URL]
   AuthType Basic
   AuthName &quot;Proftp Admin&quot;
   AuthUserFile /[URL unfurl="true"]www/passwd/password[/URL]
   Require user cmgadmin jesse
</Directory>

to the httpd.conf file and restarted the server. It's not working though. I look in the log and it says I don't have permission. As I said above I chmoded to 640 the owner is root and group is nogroup on /

http://www/passwd.

What am I doing wrong.

This is on a solaris9 box.

 

[tarn]

One thing I can see is where you said:

I did the htpasswd -c /

http://www/passwd/password/user

as per instructions

This should be htpasswd -c /

http://www/passwd/password

<space> user
where password will be the file that holds the username and hashed password and user is the username of a person that should have access

As in htpasswd -c /

http://www/passwd/password

<space> user
passwd: 12345
repete passwd: 12345

Then

http://user:12345@www.yourhost.com/proftp-admin/

I'm not sure about teh settings that you have put into httpd.conf as I usually add a .htaccess file into the protected directory.

But try this first.

Good Luck,
Laurie.