Re: Altering httpd.conf file for authentication

Are you blocking popups? .htaccess causes a popup window for
authentication, yes?

-Jamie

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Jamie Hushower
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tony <vze2jy85@yahoo.com>
To: aklug@aklug.org
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:08:51 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Altering httpd.conf file for authentication

> Hi Everyone:
>
> I have a question that I been dealing for several
> hours with no success.
>
> I am trying to set up a basic authentication login for
> entry to a website using Apache. Part of the
> httpd.conf file in the Directory section reads like
> this:
>
> <Directory "/var/www/icons">
> Options Indexes MultiViews
> AllowOverride None
> Order allow,deny
> Allow from all
> </Directory>
> <Directory "/var/www/html/index_files">
> AllowOverride AuthConfig
> AuthName "index_files"
> AuthType Basic
> require valid-user
> AuthUserFile /var/www/html/index_files/.htaccess
> </Directory>
>
> As you can see I created a directory called
> "index_files" and it has "index.html" in it. So I put
> the AuthName as "index_files" and I created a
> .htaccess file (htpasswd -c
> /var/www/html/index_files/.htpacess) and also placed
> it in that directory.
>
> However when I try to access it from another computer,
> I am told that I have a 403 error and I do not have
> permission to access the directory.
>
> Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong. I think the
> problem is in the httpd.conf file.
>
> Tony
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Received on Fri Jul 28 11:23:52 2006