On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:11:29 +0200 Stefan Fritsch <sf@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Ian> I know that the .htaccess file is getting read, because when I drop Ian> garbage there I get a server error upon loading that page. So Ian> somehow the AuthName directive in the .htaccess is getting ignored. Ian> Why?? AllowOverride seems to allow it. Stefan> See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/sections.html#mergin Stefan> <Location> always wins against .htaccess Thanks, this was the precise answer I was looking for. I swear I have read that part of the documentation, but obviously not carefully enough. -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Rule 420: All persons more than eight miles high to leave the court. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx