Re: htaccess failure

[Martin WHEELER <mwheeler@startext.co.uk>]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Eric Jennings wrote:

> I *believe* you need to "AllowOverride AuthConfig" if you wish to use
> .htaccess files within the /var/www directory to authenticate users.
> I may be wrong, but give it a shot.

Sadly, you were wrong.  <sigh>

and

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Tamas TEVESZ wrote:

>  >  AuthUserFile /etc/htusers
>  >  AuthName "Linux certification programmes (enter user ID)"
>  >  AuthType Basic
>  >  require valid-user
> 
> see above. drop in a `satisfy all' right here.

Still no go.  No difference whatsoever.

Other than regularly updating the system, I don't know what I've changed
since it used to work :)
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