--- Boyle Owen <Owen.Boyle@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > BTW, you may be suffering from the popular misconception that > AllowOverride and .htaccess files are needed for password protection. > They're not. If you can edit the config, as you can, it's usually better > to put all the Auth directives straight into the directory container. > > Rgds, > Owen Boyle Confusion: I have set up this directive per the yolinux.com examples to allow simple password protection on a directory. This is in my httpd.conf file: >>>>>>>> <Directory /web/html/missy> AllowOverride AuthConfig AuthName "MISSY'S PLACE" AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /web/etc/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile /dev/null require user missy </Directory> <<<<<<<< Boyle, are you saying that AllowOverride is not necessary? Here are the other main Directory entries: <Directory "/"> # Options FollowSymLinks Order allow,deny Deny from all </Directory> <Directory "/web/html"> Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks IndexOptions FancyIndexing IconsAreLinks AllowOverride None Allow from all Order deny,allow </Directory> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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