Win7, by default, disables use of BasicAuthentication unless the connection is via SSL. Check out this link: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/robert_mcmurray/archive/2008/01/17/webdav-redirector-registry-settings.aspx Look at this attribute: BasicAuthLevel One alternative is to switch to Digest authentication. -tony -----Original Message----- From: Bo Berglund [mailto:bo.berglund@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 6:06 AM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Cannot get Apache 2 basic authentication working with CRYPT on Win7 I have a local Apache 2.2 server on my development PC. It is running on Windows7X64. Some of our folders are protected and we use .htpasswd files to authenticate the users with CRYPT-ed passwords. THe whole website is version controlled in CVS and I work on a checked out copy of the website. Now I need to develop some PHP scripts and these need to know which user is logged on so for debugging I must get the authentication going. But so far I have been out of luck using the file with CRYPT:ed passwords. I discovered: If I use the htpasswd command to create a password on the Win7 box it seems to totally disregard the command line switch to make a CRYPT password, instead it always forces use of MD5. On the real server (at Network Solutions) the normal .htpasswd file works just fine. How can I make Apache2.2 on Win7X64 use the existing passwords so I can continue developing the PHP scripts? -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx