Hey all

I have been going several tutorials concerning settings a password protected folder for my webserver. None are working I cannot get it to function at all. I have tried several.

Here are my specs: Windows2003, Apache 2.2, Mysql5, PHP5

My Apache directory is sitting in "C:/Apache2.2", but my webfolders is my E: drive. there is a folder in there that I would like to secure with htaccess E:/testdb

If someone has a working setup or has setup a working htaccess, please let me know how you did it.

Like I mentioned, I have tried over and over the htaccess/htpasswd file setups. Even tried another one through the command prompt, about modding the C:/apache/bin/htpasswd.exe file, to no avail. And I modded the httpd file for another setup tutorial to no avail again. I have restarted APache quite a few times to.

One thing I don't understand is how to save these files in ASCII instead of binary as some tutorials say. How do save in ASCII with Win2003?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.



Heeter

Have you tried setting up

AllowOverride All

in your httpd.conf? Generally, you might not have permissions to execute .htaccess password protection.

As for saving the text in ASCII mode, just use some pure text editor like Notepad and you would be ok.

i tried .htaccess setup on windows hosting that have php as well.
not seem to work. Basic php script can run, but not htaccess.. just not sure why.

Yes I have tried that, here is a copy of my httpd section

<IfModule dir_module>
    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
</IfModule>

#
# The following lines prevent .htaccess and .htpasswd files from being 
# viewed by Web clients. 
#
<FilesMatch "^\.ht">
    Order allow,deny
    Deny from all
</FilesMatch>

AccessFileName .htaccess
<Directory "E:/testdb">
    AllowOverride All
    Options None
    Order deny,allow
</Directory>

I added the AccesFileName section in myself. The rest above this is original httpd.

Still not working though,


Heeter