On 8/19/05, Jody Cleveland <Cleveland@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > <Limit GET> > require valid-user > </Limit> DON'T USE <Limit>! See the docs on this directive for why. > I created a .htpasswd file in the directory /home/cleveland/passwords > with this as permissions: > -rwxr--r-- 1 cleveland apache 24 Aug 19 11:27 .htpasswd > > When I go to that directory that's protected, I do get a password box, > but it won't accept my name and password. > > In my error_log, there's this: > [error] [client 172.30.2.145] (13)Permission denied: Could not open > password file: /home/cleveland/passwords/.htpasswd > > Any ideas what may be wrong? I thought both files had the right > permissions. I even tried chmod'ing both files to 777 and it didn't > work. Check the permissions on all parent directories to make sure they are at least searchable (chmod +x) by the web server. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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