On 21 Feb 2011, at 09:12, Lee Goddard wrote: > Dear Apache Users, > > I have been looking at a problem for so many hours now that I think it has made me blind. > > The below configuration is intended to restrict access to /admin-cgi/ to members of the group "admin", which is defined in a plain text file, whilst users and passwords are in a DBM file. > [...] > > AuthGroupFile /Users/leegoddard/src/www/northfoto2/auth/northfoto_groups.db 1. What does the error log say? Adjust LogLevel if necessary. 2. Is that a plain text file? 3. What "Satisfy" directive is in effect? Set a specific Satisfy All to be safe. -- Nick Kew Available for work, contract or permanent http://www.webthing.com/~nick/cv.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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