>>> I am trying to password protect a sub directory within the web space of a
>>> domain that is serving site statistics of awstats generated pages. The path
>> > to the dir is /home/user1/www/awstats. When testing, I am able to get a
>> > username and password prompt for the front page of the site, i.e. for
>> > www.mydomain.com, when I place the .htaccess file in www. But I can't get a
>> > functional prompt for www.mydomain.com/awstats when I place the .htaccess in
>> > the awstats dir. The login box comes up but it won't accept my username
>> > password combo, even though it will accept it when I have the same .htaccess
>> > file in the www dir.
>>
>> See:
>> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/htaccess.html
>>
>> Your problem is that you don't have AllowOverride set correctly for
>> the relevant directory. But
beyond that, you probably don't want to be
>> using .htaccess at all. Just put the directives in the relevant
>> <Directory> section in httpd.conf.
>>
>> Joshua.
>
>Thanks Joshua,
>
>I read the above DOC you posted thanks. Just to clarify, do you
>reccomend that I use the <Directory> method in the main httpd.conf file
>as described in the above, instead ot .htaccess?
Oops, just re read your post :) appears that's what you meant.
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