Hello,
Try with this configuration:
<Directory /home/username/public_html/Private>
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /home/username/public_html/Private/.htpasswd
AuthName Test
Require valid-user
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
chmod 644 /home/username/public_html/Private/.htpasswd
chown root:apache /home/username/public_html/Private/.htpasswd
Note: You dont need to store password file in a publicly accessible directory, i think it can be a security risk.
-Anam
From: John D <javadevelopercl@xxxxxxxxx>
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, 2 March 2012, 0:48
Subject: public_html directory authentication
I'm running Apache/2.2.3 on a centos 5 server and trying to setup authentication for a subdirectory in a user's public_html folder.
I created a .htaccess file and .htpasswd file in that subdirectory with permissions 0644. But now the subdirectory does not show up
on the web page. In my httpd.conf file I have:
<Directory /home/*/public_html>
AllowOverride AuthConfig
</Directory>
I've also tried adding this to the httpd conf file
<Directory /home/username/public_html/Private>
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /home/username/public_html/Private/.htpasswd
AuthName Test
Require valid-user
</Directory>
but that also doesn't seem to work. The only thing that works a bit for me is to set AllowOverride to None in the /home/*/public_html directory config but that just enables the folder to show and does no authentication. Can anyone help me?
Thanks
