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login with .htaccess
12-01-2008 11:49 AM
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I have created a password protected folder, but when I put its url into my browser I get the message
<Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /protected2 on this server.>
But there is nowhere where the name and password can be entered.
<This is my file .htaccess:
AuthUserFile/share/isp/free-online/http://www/du/dunbarharbour/htdocs/spages/sillittopages/protected2/.htpasswd
AuthName "Please Log On"
AuthType Basic
require valid-user>
What have I done wrong?
Re: login with .htaccess
13-01-2008 2:58 PM
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The file should just contain a line with a user name and a pass word in it ie
David:caravan
Ther's a tutorial at
http://usertools.plus.net/tutorials/id/5
Regards glencot
Re: login with .htaccess
13-01-2008 5:40 PM
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You also need to create a populate a .htpasswd file (which the AthUserFile is refering to) with a login and encrypted pasword. The tutorial linked above explains this except replace any reference of plusnet in any file paths to free-online
Re: login with .htaccess
13-01-2008 6:26 PM
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Quote from: glencot Hi youn need to create a file called .htpasswd and put this in the protected folder as well.
The file should just contain a line with a user name and a pass word in it ie
David:caravan
Regards glencot
Thanks, Glencot, I had already done that

Quote from: Peter Add a space after the AuthUserFile and remove the http://www bit.
You also need to create a populate a .htpasswd file (which the AthUserFile is refering to) with a login and encrypted pasword. The tutorial linked above explains this except replace any reference of plusnet in any file paths to free-online
Thanks, Peter.
I've now tried that, but still no luck, not even if I put the /www back as shown in the tutorial


I'm going to try deleting the protected folder and starting again

Well, I got the login form now, but my browser evidently can't deal with sending the data


Re: login with .htaccess
13-01-2008 7:28 PM
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I've just tried every permutation I can think of and still it won't let me in.
Never had any success with it.....401's every time

Customer and Forum Moderator. Windows 10 Firefox 84.0.2 (64-bit)
Re: login with .htaccess
13-01-2008 11:10 PM
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.htaccess should look like this
AuthUserFile /share/isp/free-online/www/du/dunbarharbour/htdocs/spages/sillittopages/protected2/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName EnterPassword
AuthType Basic
require valid-user
This is assuming from your htdocs folder you have the following directories:
spages/sillittopages/protected2/
Try putting a file with content called file.txt in the protected2 directory and checking you can access it with a URL http://www.dunbarharbour/spages/sillittopages/protected2/file.txt
When that works you know you have the path right.
Next create the login & encrypted password to put in the .htpasswd file from http://users.plus.net/htpasswd/ and copy it and the .htaccess file to htdocs/spages/sillittopages/protected2 directory
How are you uploading the .ht* files to your webspace as there can be issues between windows text files and unix text files. It is best to use something like FTP.
Note: This all assumes the change from free-online to plusnet has not changed any paths to your htdocs.
Re: login with .htaccess
14-01-2008 12:01 PM
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When I keyed in
AuthUserFile /share/isp/force9/www/xx/username/htdocs/protected/.htpasswd
for the xx I put in the first 2 letters of the protected page login username not my account username

Now it works.
Thanks Peter for demonstrating outstanding patience in the face of absurdity.
*Dick sneaks off to play with his new toy*
Customer and Forum Moderator. Windows 10 Firefox 84.0.2 (64-bit)
Re: login with .htaccess
14-01-2008 5:45 PM
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Re: login with .htaccess
14-01-2008 11:18 PM
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Quote from: Peter First Linux is case sensitive when it comes to directory and filenames so make sure all directories are lowercase and try not to use any spaces. This is where many people trip up whe they are used to windows which is case insensitive.
.htaccess should look like this
AuthUserFile /share/isp/free-online/www/du/dunbarharbour/htdocs/spages/sillittopages/protected2/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName EnterPassword
AuthType Basic
require valid-user
This is assuming from your htdocs folder you have the following directories:
spages/sillittopages/protected2/
Try putting a file with content called file.txt in the protected2 directory and checking you can access it with a URL http://www.dunbarharbour/spages/sillittopages/protected2/file.txt
When that works you know you have the path right.
Next create the login & encrypted password to put in the .htpasswd file from http://users.plus.net/htpasswd/ and copy it and the .htaccess file to htdocs/spages/sillittopages/protected2 directory
How are you uploading the .ht* files to your webspace as there can be issues between windows text files and unix text files. It is best to use something like FTP.
Note: This all assumes the change from free-online to plusnet has not changed any paths to your htdocs.
Thanks, Peter. The only part of that which differs from what I did was the <auth/group> line. So I tried it again with that line included, and a newly acquired code for the password file. Again I could get to the request for a password when I clicked on a link to a file in the protected folder, but still the form simply came back twice when I entered the data and then it brought up the 401 message.
Tomorrow I will try starting again absolutely from scratch again.

Still no different. Any other suggestions?
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