[plug] Apache & htpasswd

[Jason Nicholls]

On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 05:39:03PM +0800, Brian Tombleson wrote:
> Both the old and new server are setup to use this in the same way (the
> htaccess), except that the new server does not verify any of the
> username/passwords from the .htpasswd file copied from the old server.

Are you saying that it doesn't ask for authentication at all, or that it does
but it always fails?

If it's the first case then it's probably because apache is configured _not_
to look for htaccess files, or perhaps it is, but auth is ignored.

ie: in the approriate place in your apache config you should have:

	AllowOverride AuthConfig
	(or AuthConfig with additional items, or 'All")

If it's the second case (failing auth) then what does the error log show?


Later,

Jason Nicholls
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