secure access using htpasswd

[jshoker]

Hi,

I am trying to setup up apache2 on to use user authentication to access directories. This is how I did it

1) Use htpasswd to create a password for the user
2) Created a group file
3) modified the http.conf file with the following setup]

<Directory /home/sites/web/secure>
AuthType Basic
AuthName &quot;secure access&quot;
AuthUserFile /home/sites/passwords
AuthGroupFile /home/sites/groups
Require group secure
</Directory>

There is page with a link to a pdf in the secure directory. After the changes I am not prompted for access at all but allowed directly in. What have I done wrong? I did httpd -l and it showed the auth_mod.c and aut_access.c so the modules should be available right? Any help would be apreciated.

jshoker

 

[MichealC4]

Did you restart the server? You have to restart Apache after making changes to httpd.conf

 

[jshoker]

No I didn't restart the server. I didn't know that you had to restart the server in order for changes in the httpd.conf to take affect. Also the web server is being hosted by web host company and I wasn't sure what their procedures were for restarting ther server. I will check and try thanks.

 

[MichealC4]

Sure thing.

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