----- Original Message ----- > On 1/22/11 1:45 PM, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a reports directory I wish to secure and have created the > > necessary .htaccess file: > > Don't. > Just use the configuration file if you have access to it. > > It will make life so much easier. > > > > -- > J. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 I have tried as-well adding it directly to httpd-vhosts.conf and get the same result :( Here is the virtual host entry if anybody can see what I have done wrong :( <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx DocumentRoot "/www/somedomain.co.uk" <Directory /www/somedomain.co.uk/> AllowOverride All </Directory> <Directory /www/somedomain.co.uk/reports/> AuthUserFile /www/security/access AuthType Basic AuthName "Restricted Access" Require user secretuser Allow from all Order deny,allow </Directory> ServerName www.somedomain.co.uk ServerAlias somedomain.co.uk ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 30 seconds" ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 2 weeks" ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 2 weeks" ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 month" AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/css text/xml application/x-javascript application/javascript application/xml # Deactivate compression for buggy browsers BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html DeflateCompressionLevel 6 # Set header information for proxies Header append Vary User-Agent ErrorLog "logs/www.somedomain.co.uk-error.log" CustomLog "logs/www.somedomain.co.uk-access.log" common </VirtualHost> -- 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