Allowing users to view content of password-protected directory

[Robin Miller <cmplxgal@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everyone,

My website is hosted by a company using Apache 2.2.23. They offer, 
through cPanel, a simple functionality for password protecting a 
directory. This functionality creates an .htaccess file with the 
following lines of code:

AuthType Basic
AuthName "Subscriber-only Content"
require valid-user
AuthUserFile "/home/bankrup2/.htpasswds/public_html/subscribers/passwd"

My problem is that I want users who have logged in to the 
password-protected directory to be able to view a listing of the 
content of the directory and its subdirectories. None of the 
directories have index files, so under normal conditions, an attempt 
to access the directory would yielding a listing of the directory content.

However, the present coding (or my hosting company's configuration) 
does not allow that. An attempt to view 
http://www.cbar.pro/subscribers/ (the protected directory) yields the 
following error message, even when the user has logged in through 
password access:

403 Permission Denied
You do not have permission for this request /subscribers/

I have added the following two lines of code to the .htaccess file:

Options +Indexes
IndexOptions ShowForbidden

I have tried adding it to both the top and the bottom of the existing 
four lines of code, in case the order in which the commands are 
executed makes a difference. However, I still get the same error message.

I searched the archives and found a message asking the same question 
(Subject:	 Letting users see directory contents of 
protected directory) but the thread ended without a resolution.

I publish a newsletter, with access to the protected directory 
limited to subscribers, and I would very much like to allow 
subscribers to view the directory contents, as I have a lot of 
research files for them, and this would be another way they could 
access those files.

My hosting firm's setup allows the listing of directory content for 
directories that are not password-protected (and that don't have 
index files). You can view the directory content for 
http://www.cbar.pro/free/   So this is definitely being caused by the 
addition of the password protection.

Thank you for any help you can give me,
Robin Miller


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