Hi, I have been using Apache for some years now but am new to the list. I have been getting a problem with a fresh install of Apache 2.0.55 from the Debian unstable repositry. When I try to access a newly created Virtual host I get the following error: Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. In the error logs I see the following: [Wed Nov 09 15:03:51 2005] [alert] [client 69.212.211.252] /.htaccess: Invalid command 'AuthPAM_Enabled', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration My VirtualHost file contains the following: [Domain name hidden] NameVirtualHost * <VirtualHost my.domain.org> ServerAdmin mick@xxxxxxxxxx DocumentRoot /home/hosts/test ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/my.domain.org-error.log CustomLog /home/test/log/my.domain.org-access.log common <Directory /home/hosts/test> Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> </VirtualHost> Inside the /home/hosts/test directory I have only a simple test index.html file. I tried installing AuthPAM with the following: apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-pam With this installed I get an authentication box for authentication to Intranet, which is a password protected area of another site and nothing to do with this virtual host. If I use the authentication details I have for that site I get to the test index page from http://my.domain.org:8000 (I am running from this port for testing as I have a working version of Apache2 serving live sites). I can not figure out where it is picking up the .htaccess file from and why it is asking for authentication to directories that should be accessible to everyone. My understanding is that PAM is used to authentication against UNIX accounts, but this is not what is happening here. I do not want to use PAM at all. I want to be able to host Virtual domains that are publicly accessible and protect individual directories with .htaccess files as I have done since version 1.2 of Apache quite happily. Any ideas on this would be greatly appreciated. Mick. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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