problem with setting up .htaccess/.htpasswd

[Samor]

Hello,

I'm running Apache on a Debian sarge distribution, and I'm trying to get htaccess to work properly.
I've followed instructions according to several tutorials, this being one of them:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faqs/2006/0...irectories.php

I've made changes in my httpd.conf accordingly, and indeed, the secure notice pops up.... however, it won't accept the password I've put into .htpasswd. It seems like it simply isn't finding the .htpasswd file, but I verified the location. Changing the location does not have any effect either.

Is there some other setting somewhere else I have to set as well? I can't see where I forgot anything, but it still isn't working.

[yourname3232]

Is the password in plain text? You can use the generator here ( http://www.kxs.net/support/htaccess_pw.html ) if you need to generate passwords.

[Samor]

I tried several types of encryption, as well as plain text passwords, but that didn't help either.

[gtmtnbiker98]

It sounds like a permissions issue on the .htpasswd file. Where did you place this file and did you check the permissions on this file granting the appropriate read access? I would place this file within the /etc/apache2 directory so that the Apache daemon has appropriate permissions. Just a suggestion.