I have protected a directory successfully using htaccess. But am very unsure as to the path naming conventions.

I am using an Apache server on a local machine for developement and testing (windows vista home premium), set up as directed with no problems.

But I cannot make head nor tail of the paths given in tutorials and help references such as these:

AuthUserFile /usr/local/you/safedir/.htpasswd

or:

ErrorDocument 401 /errors/authreqd.html
What does that first slash represent, please don't tell me root this or that but give me a path, my document root is:

C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/

so what is "usr" or "local", and where does "/errors/" spring from? I welcome any help.

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Hello Alpina,
Your request has gone unanswered for nearly a month, but I'll jump in anyway.

Originally Posted by alpina

I have protected a directory successfully using htaccess. But am very unsure as to the path naming conventions.

I am using an Apache server on a local machine for development and testing (windows vista home premium), set up as directed with no problems.

But I cannot make head nor tail of the paths given in tutorials and help references such as these:

AuthUserFile /usr/local/you/safedir/.htpasswd

First of all, .htpasswd and .htaccess and any other filenames that begin with a dot, are hidden files in the Linux operating system. As of Windows XP, you cannot tell Windows directly to create a file called (no file name).extension, as in c:\.htaccess, but you can use third-party text editors to save a file directly as .htaccess.

/ is the root of the filesystem, /usr is one folder deep from the root. Equivalent in your case to C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\ is root and C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\usr\ is one level deep.

Supposing you have your site's front page at ...\htdocs\public_html\index.html, anything in the htdocs folder that is not in the public_html branch is a potential safedir. You want your .htpasswd outside of the reach of any browser.



or:

ErrorDocument 401 /errors/authreqd.html
What does that first slash represent, please don't tell me root this or that but give me a path, my document root is:

C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/

/ is root in Linux, just substitute it for your document root. All branches of the filesystem tree spring from the root, with /usr being one branch, and /usr/local being a further branching of this branch of the tree.

Apache turns Windows' backslashes into forward slashes (C:/) so the scripts that run in the Apach environment and designed to eun in Linux will run in Apache in Windows.

I once had an Apache installation in Windows, and I put it on a different drive from C, in a much shorter folder name than "Apache Software Foundation" so that I didn't need to either type long names or read long lines of pathnames, and put my web site files in another folder on the same drive as Apache, and created a \usr\ folder to install ActivePerl in. I selected \usr\ and it added the bin folder and put perl.exe there. Resulting path was in the Windows environment, D:\ust\nin\perl.exe, and in the Apache environment it was /usr/bin/perl. I developed my scripts on my Windows computer, ran them successfully and debugged them, then deployed them on my host's Apache in Linux and everything was fine as soon as I set the permissions, which is a Linux thing.

so what is "usr" or "local", and where does "/errors/" spring from? I welcome any help.

Hope this was helpful.