modssl and htaccess

Hi,

I am running apache 1.3.23 with modssl. I have setup a htaccess file in a directory, but it isn't being picked up. I have set the


Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride AuthConfig


I seem to remember that I might have to set somthing in the SSL options in the virtual host section of my httpd.conf

Can anyone suggest some possible cause to why my htaccess file is being ignored. The contents of my htaccess file is


AuthUserFile /apps/apache/bin/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "Restricted Site"
AuthType Basic


require valid-user


Thanks in advance for any suggestions that you can provide

cheers
Mike

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RE: modssl and htaccess

>From: Michael O'Brien [mailto:michaelob@email.com]
>
>Can anyone suggest some possible cause to why my htaccess file
>is being ignored. The contents of my htaccess file is
>
>
>AuthUserFile /apps/apache/bin/.htpasswd
>AuthGroupFile /dev/null
>AuthName "Restricted Site"
>AuthType Basic
>
>
>require valid-user
>

AuthUserFile is supposed to point at the file containing your usernames and passwords. Did you really do:

cd /apps/apache/bin
../htpasswd -c .htpasswd username

when you were making your password file? (i.e. why call a password file nearly the same as the binary that made it and put it in a bin directory?) I usually have things like:

AuthUserFile /home/site/admin/passwords/member_section.pwd

Which is a whole lot less confusing...

Anyway: Is your "htaccess" file really called "htaccess"? Is so, do you have:

AccessFileName htaccess

because the default is ".htaccess" and "htaccess" will not work on its own (all these leading dots are part of the filename, remember).

Otherwise, check the error log and post the results.

Rgds,

Owen Boyle

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