.htaccess

**gmoreno** · 04-18-2002, 03:00 PM

I'm trying to get that to work so that the whole world wont download my mp3s and movies but it dosent work. I have .htaccess and .htpassword

.htaccess

Code:

AuthUserFile /var/www/downloads/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName Downloads
AuthType Basic

require valid-user

.htpassword

Code:

guest:pejo9ft9AVhKM

**Uhh** · 04-18-2002, 05:03 PM

Double check your httpd.conf file, and make sure you have

Code:

AllowOverride AuthConfig

for at least the directory you want to protect.

**gmoreno** · 04-18-2002, 10:54 PM

I've added that and it still dosnt work.. http://gabe.mine.nu/downloads

**coltrane** · 04-18-2002, 10:57 PM

Try this instead

Code:

AuthUserFile /var/www/downloads/.htpasswd
 AuthGroupFile /dev/null
 AuthName Downloads
 AuthType Basic

 &lt;Limit GET&gt;
 require user guest
 &lt;/Limit&gt;

**agar** · 04-19-2002, 12:44 AM

I've heard of .htaccess a lot before but never found out what it does. Could someone explain it to me?

**cloverm** · 04-19-2002, 01:23 AM

I've heard of .htaccess a lot before but never found out what it does. Could someone explain it to me?

It restricts access to web folders. For example you can password protect files on a website that only users who were given a username and password can download or view.

**Feztaa** · 04-19-2002, 01:46 AM

It restricts access to web folders. For example you can password protect files on a website that only users who were given a username and password can download or view.

Oh, so when I try to access a site and Moz pops up with a login prompt (and I'm not talking about the crappy JavaScript ones, either), that's .htaccess doing it? Cool.

**coltrane** · 04-19-2002, 09:56 PM

gmoreno:

I attempted to I.M. you this afternoon, did you ever get that working?

**kornp** · 05-07-2002, 01:49 PM

I had troubles with this for a long time aswell. My problem wats that my httpd.conf file wasn't configured properly and didn't let the .htaccess files override the default. Right now, I am doing what you would be doing from the .htaccess file right from the httpd.conf file. This can be changed though. But, to make apache let the .htaccess files override the defaults you need to change the httpd.conf files from:

AllowOverride None

to:

AllowOverride All

This will let the .htaccess files override the default security etc. There are also other options you can use instead of None and All, they are briefly mentioned in the httpd.conf file. I hope this helps you out.