Hi,

I've made a site password protected but if the user hits cancel on the password dialog box, I want to redirect them to my customized 401 page. Here's me .htaccess file:

ErrorDocument 401 /error401.html

AuthUserFile /web/sites/10/phem2004/www.aquarline.co.uk/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName EnterPassword
AuthType Basic
<Limit GET> require user admin require user customer</Limit>

Apparently, an error is found while processing the ErrorDocument page.

Anyone see a glaring error there? It's the first time I've set something like this up so it's a new one on me!

Cheers in advance,

Scott.

The only glaring problem I can see, is that you are trying to load a protected file (your custom error document, as it is part of the protected site), when login fails.

Which wouldn't work, because if you can't log in, obviously you can't see a protected page...

Possible solution? Remove protection from the main folder, and move everything you want to protect to a subfolder, and protect that. You can have an index.html in your root, redirecting to the protected folder (or change the main page of your site in .htaccess to point to index.html in the protected folder)

Observation: Not a good idea to put .htpasswd in your root. I would put it in /web/sites/10/phem2004/secure/.htpasswd

Well that makes sense to me now. Why the hell couldn't I see that?! Hehe, never mind.

Thanks a lot for your help.

You're most welcome