On 1/21/06, Muthu <cmuthu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > > I am using apache 2.0.55. In the directory listing, it is not > showing the password protected directory (i.e the directory which has > .htaccess file). All other directories are getting listed. If I remove > the .htaccess file, It is listing that directory. Can somebody give > suggestions? > > the .htaccess contains > > AuthUserFile /var/www/localhost/htdocs/.htpasswd > AuthName "Test only" > AuthType Basic > require valid-user This is for security reasons. The fact that a resource exists may be private. In 2.2 you can turn it off with the ShowForbidden IndexOption. So the easiest solution would be to upgrade. 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