Re: .htpasswd always rejected! Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by ing … contents of my .htaccess file: AuthUserFile http://mydomain.com/sandbox/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile /dev/null AuthName "Secure area. Please enter admin…." AuthType Basic require valid-user I meant **htpasswd** command. Sorry, brainfart. `htpasswd -c .htpasswd secure` And then set the password. I checked… .htpasswd always rejected! Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by ing … and I'm having a problem where my .htaccess / .htpasswd protection always rejects my password. I've set permissions to…. At first I tried setting the password in the .htpasswd file from OS X's Terminal using the htaccess command… appreciate your feedback. Edit: I should mention that my .htpasswd file path is absolute. Also I want to move this… Re: .htpasswd always rejected! Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by cereal …change it to: AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /absolute/path/to/.htpasswd AuthName "Secure area. Please enter admin password."…absolute path to the file, as example: `/srv/auth/.htpasswd`, not an url. Then as `Require user` set… the one used with the htpasswd command, in you example is **secure**, so **secure**… Re: .htpasswd always rejected! Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by ing …is **/index.html** So my password would be **/sandbox/.htpasswd** That is what the server would consider an **absolute… filepath**, right? Since a **relative filepath** would be **./.htpasswd** Or am I missing some important bit of info here… the server is UNIX or Linux, but the command **htpasswd** should hash the same on any 'NIX system, right… Re: .htpasswd always rejected! Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by cereal …; Running this from the path in which is saved the .htpasswd file, will return the correct path to set. Another alternative… second refers the server installation. The hash generated automatically by htpasswd is a MD5 digest, it starts by `$apr1$`, and is… Re: .htpasswd always rejected! Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by cereal … modules: * mod_auth * mod_auth_digest * mod_aut_dbm are these enabled? Have you used **htpasswd** or **htdigest** to generate the password file? You wrote about… Re: .htpasswd always rejected! Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by cereal … browser the access permission will expire. Has security measure the .htpasswd file should be placed out of the web root, i… Re: htpasswd and htaccess config Programming Web Development by Troy I'm not sure why you titled your post htpasswd and htaccess when your question is about the basics of … Re: added new users to htpasswd, but cant login with their creds Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by james.newell Hi ryan461, From the command you've posted it seems you're calling htpasswd incorrectly. Run the command "htpasswd -h" to determine how to use htpasswd correctly. If you are confident that you are using htpasswd correctly then please post your .htpasswd and .htaccess files so we can check them. Regards, James .htaccess and .htpasswd Programming Web Development by GlenRogers … "Admin Login" AuthUserFile C:/wamp/www/diamondback/admin/.htpasswd require valid-user my htpasswd file user:password Thanks for looking............... Re: added new users to htpasswd, but cant login with their creds Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by ryan461 Well i did it the same way on another vm, which worked fine. not sure what the issue was. i first did htpasswd -c file user then htpasswd file user for additional users Re: added new users to htpasswd, but cant login with their creds Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by james.newell Yes that correct. I was put off by "htpasswd passwd can" instead of "htpasswd file user". Can you please post your .htaccess file so we can see how you are applying the restriction. Re: PHP functions to handle .htpasswd file Programming Web Development by LastMitch >I wrote four simple functions to manipulate .htpasswd file ( Apache ). Thanks for sharing. I actually like this code …snippet and the file is called: **htpasswd.php**. You should have included your other files from here… HTTP Auth (.htpasswd) Not Working In CGI-BIN Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by samarudge … a .htaccess file: [CODE]AuthUserFile /var/www/cgi-bin/secure/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile /dev/null AuthName "uTutorial Console" AuthType Basic… PHP functions to handle .htpasswd file Programming Web Development by MitkOK I wrote four simple functions to manipulate .htpasswd file ( Apache ). automated htpasswd access? Programming Web Development by Fost … work with XML documents and one is stored behind a .htpasswd arrangement. I have a script which requests the xml docs… added new users to htpasswd, but cant login with their creds Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by ryan461 Im just doin some testing with a local webserver. i have one user: hybrid who can login to the webpage fine and has for a while. But when i added a few users: usa, can with simple passwords using: ubuntu # htpasswd passwd can thats works fine. But I cannot login with these users to the web page, it just asks again for a username password. Re: .htpasswd always rejected! Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by ing Another consideration: 3. Although I am setting permissions to **604** does it make a difference where the file resides at the time permissions are changed? (Since I'm changing it on my computer and *then* FTP uploading it.) Just trying to think of every possible variable that might cause a problem. Re: .htpasswd always rejected! Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by ing Thank you so much! It's great to have this working. It had been bothering me for days. Now that that the big burning question is out of the way, I have a few less important questions if you're up to it. 1. Does the login session ever expire? Or now that I've typed the password from this computer it will always let me in until I clear cookies or … htpasswd and htaccess config Programming Web Development by tyty Hi I have attempted to install Apache/PHP on a new WinXP Home machine. I have it running succesfully on a Win98 machine. Apache works fine. PHP doesn't. I get the following Apache log error when trying [url]http://localhost/phpinfo.php[/url] - File does not exist: c:/webroot/php/php.exe/phpinfo.php. phpinfo.php is in c:/webroot. PHP … Re: htpasswd and htaccess config Programming Web Development by val542 You should take the PHP package for windows! Re: htpasswd and htaccess config Programming Web Development by Troy val542, are you replying to tyty or me? And if to tyty, he almost certainly is using the PHP package for Windows....he can't put the Linux version on his WinXP machine. So I'm not sure what your point is. :) Re: .htaccess and .htpasswd Programming Web Development by pritaeas You can (re)set the default file for that folder. It's usually `index.php`, so you could also upload a file named that, and do a header redirect in code. Re: .htaccess and .htpasswd Programming Web Development by GlenRogers Brilliant! Thanks very much................ Re: automated htpasswd access? Programming Web Development by Lapixx I think that cURL functions are able to do that. You can set up a HTTP request and add parameters like a username/password combination. Take a look at the [URL="http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php"]cURL functions reference[/URL] Re: automated htpasswd access? Programming Web Development by digital-ether You can use file_get_contents(). Just add the user and password to the url in the form: [url]http://user:pass@example.com/path/to/file.xml[/url] Or you can specify the http header to send in the stream context parameter. eg: [CODE]$context = stream_context_create(array( 'http' => array( 'method' => 'GET', 'header' =&… Re: automated htpasswd access? Programming Web Development by Fost Hey, Sorry about the late getting back but thanks digital-ether! The stream context worked perfectly! Had loads of fun playing with this and got the end result I needed. Great stuff! Thanks again. Re: .htaccess not working.! Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by TheOgre … follows: [indent] user@host$ htpasswd Usage: htpasswd [-cmdps] passwordfile username htpasswd -b[cmdps] passwordfile username password htpasswd -n[mdps] username htpasswd -nb[mdps] username password… htaccess not password protecting directory in a web server Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by amish123 …that directory. Also, i have created a .htpasswd file and saved it in another directory. I…please let me know where im going wrong, .htpasswd file contains, this line, root:7rF2c3QN5gWeh .htacces …contains the following, AuthUserFile /var/.htpasswd AuthType Basic AuthName "My Secret Folder" … Re: htaccess not password protecting directory in a web server Hardware and Software Linux and Unix by sknake … What are the permissions on the .htpasswd file? `ls -al /var/.htpasswd` Do you see any error messages…var/log/apache2/`? Also the password hashes for htpasswd are weak, so you should change the password… Repository" AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/htpasswd Require valid-user </Directory>