Re: .htaccess help!
Alexander Wallace(awallace@rwsoft-online.com) is reported to have said:
> Hello there, I hope you can excuse my ignorance in these matters...
>
> In order to protect certain html dirs with a password, I was told by a
> good member of this list to make sure that I had the mod_auth enabled in
> httpd.conf. Which I do.
>
> Thend I was told that I need an .htaccess file which I created with
> htpasswd in /home/myusername/.htaccess...
>
> But when i create the file and look for
> http://www.myserver.com/~myusername i get:
>
> Internal Server Error
> The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was
> unable to complete your request...
The .htaccess file is put into the directory you wish to protect:
ie /home/public_html/linux/.htaccess
the first line of my .htaccess files tells apache where to look for
the .htpasswd file. Such as
AuthUserFile /home/my_home_dir/.htpasswd
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