Directory Authentication

[Allblack]

Hi there,

I want to password protect a directory but it is not working yet.
The following error is found in my log:

invalid command 'AuthDBMUserFile' perhaps misspelled or defined by a meodule not included in the server configuration

.htaccess

AuthName = "Family Only"
AuthType Basic
AuthDBMUserFile /usr/somedir/userdb
require valid user

What permissions does this file need?

I have the AllowOverride AuthConfig Option set in a directory under my virtualhost. I was able to succesfully create users with the dbmmanage command

Any ideas?

[Allblack]

I have fixed it by doing it a bit different. I have removed the .htaccess file and specified the options in the directory. Afterwards I created a userdb wit htpassword.

What is the difference between this and dbmmanage?

Cheers

[nikhil]

I think you will have to replace the
"AuthDBMUserFile" directive with
"AuthUserFile"
I dont think there is any directive called AuthDBMUserFile, is there??

[Allblack]

I did change that to AuthUserfile when I put the directives in my directory.
Originally I had put the content in an .htaccess file and use AuthDBMUserfile because that's what it said in an example I got from a book.
As this did not worked I used AuthUserfile as described on the Apache site.
I'll have to try it again with a .htaccess file.

Cheers

[nikhil]

What does dbmmanage do exacty and how does it work?

[Allblack]

I managed to create a user database with like you do with htpasswd. The latter seems to have less parameters available.