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[Atif Munir]

Hi,
I am creating a passwd on a directoy with the help of htpasswd. But its not working and does not prompt for passwd.The .htaccess I have created is a under.
------------------------.htaccess------------------------------------------
AuthUserFile /var/www/html/.htpasswd
AuthName Admins
AuthType Basic
<Limit GET>
require valid-user
</Limit>
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Then I use
#htpasswd -c /var/ww/html/.htpasswd atif

In this way passwd file is also created by still it does not ask for passwd and goes directly into the index.html.

Thanks in advance.
Atif

[bitserve]

Maybe you need AllowOverride in your httpd.conf for that dir?

[Studio64]

Simple quick .htaccess file that I know to work

AuthType Basic
AuthName "Secure Pages"
AuthUserFile /var/www/html/.htpasswd
require valid-user