Problem getting .htaccess working

[Jamo]

Im trying to password protect a folder on my webserver. I have everything working i.e. it asks for the username and password when I try to access the folder but when I enter them, it says the password or username is wrong (it is not, I have checked many, many times). I thought maybe apache doesn't have the rights to the .htpasswd file so i did a "chown root:apache .htpasswd" on it, but that didnt help.

This is my .htaccess files contents:

AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/private/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "private area"
AuthType "Basic"

<Limit GET POST>
require valid-user
</Limit>

Yes, my .htpasswd file is located in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/private. To create the user I made the file with the command htpasswd -c .htpasswd username, and it said user and password created.

Do I need to set some permissions or what? Please help, this is driving me nuts.

[Jamo]

bump

[keenlearner]

u shoud change the group and not the owner of the file
.htpasswd tp apache. and give the read permission or whatever
u want to give , give to the group.

try these these commands..

# htpasswd -mc .htpasswd username
# chgrp apache .htpasswd
# chmod g+r .htpasswd

besides this make an entry in httpd.conf
inside the <Directory> block..

AllowOverride AuthConfig


Regards
KeenLearner

[photon]

the problem is with the encryption algorithm used be htpaccess
you might use this perl script to generate the password for .htaccess file.
http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/~csd00377/misc/addpw.pl