----- Original Message ----- > Have you checked the Order directive? > > Also I usually have the Basic authentication in a Location tag to > ensure its been applied to the right URL. > > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:45 PM, --[ UxBoD ]-- <uxbod@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a reports directory I wish to secure and have created the > > necessary .htaccess file: > > > > AuthUserFile /www/security/somedomain_access > > AuthType Basic > > AuthName "Restricted Access" > > Require user someuser > > > > I believe my virtual host config is correct: > > > > <VirtualHost *:80> > > Â ÂServerAdmin webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Â ÂDocumentRoot "/www/somedomain.co.uk" > > Â Â<Directory /www/somedomain.co.uk/> > > Â Â Â ÂAllowOverride All > > Â Â</Directory> > > > > Â ÂServerName www.somedomain.co.uk > > Â ÂServerAlias somedomain.co.uk > > > > Â ÂExpiresActive On > > Â ÂExpiresByType text/html "access plus 30 seconds" > > Â ÂExpiresByType text/css "access plus 2 weeks" > > Â ÂExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 2 weeks" > > Â ÂExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month" > > Â ÂExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month" > > Â ÂExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 month" > > > > Â ÂAddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/css text/xml > > Â Âapplication/x-javascript application/javascript application/xml > > > > Â ÂBrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html > > Â ÂBrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip > > Â ÂBrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html > > > > Â ÂDeflateCompressionLevel 6 > > > > Â ÂHeader append Vary User-Agent > > > > Â ÂErrorLog "logs/www.somedomain.co.uk-error.log" > > Â ÂCustomLog "logs/www.somedomain.co.uk-access.log" common > > </VirtualHost> > > > > Though when I navigate to > > http://www.somedomain.co.uk/reports/test.html I am never prompted > > for a user/password :( If I add some random text to .htaccess then I > > do receive a Server Error so the file is being processed. Thoughts > > please ? > > -- > > Thanks, Phil > > How do you mean, please ? -- Thanks, Phil --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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