> You should turn it off until you have the time to learn about it and > configure it properly. That is almost certainly what is giving you > the permission-denied problem. I did a little more research on this this morning. The password file needs permissions of 644, and the password file needs to be in /etc/httpd It now works fine. - jody --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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