[ale] .htaccess

[yahoo at jimpop.com (Jim Popovitch)]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Terry Bailey <terry at bitlinx.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I have a directory structure in Fedora core 5 as follows:
>
>  /var/www/html/admin
>
>  In admin there is a .htaccess file that contains the following information:

is it world readable?

>  AuthName ByPassword
>  AuthType Basic
>  AuthUserFile /usr/local/adminuser
>  Require valid-user

is /usr/local/adminuser readable by the Apache userid?

>  This works in Solaris 9 but, for some reason, the user/password popup
>  does not happen in Fedora.  Is there something that I need to do in
>  the httpd.conf file?

AllowOverride AuthConfig


-Jim P.