RE: Apache Authorization Access Control - locationofhtpasswd in Centos 5.1?

[Pam Astor <pamastor@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> Does the /passwd directory exist?
>>>> 
>>>>It does now.  It did not when I first ran the command, however
>>>>I just created the directory /passwd/passwords
>>>>and re ran the command as root, and still no luck.
>>> 

>>>I think you only need to create the directory /passwd, then use 'touch' to create the file, passwords 

>>>Thanks Thomas,

>> 

>>Not familiar with the "touch" command, can you point me to info on it, or show

>>the command syntax?

>Not sure if htpasswd creates the password file.  If not, the as root, run:  touch passwords ,in the  /passwd directory.  It will be an empty file, but the 'htpasswd -c' should create this for you.

> 

>I think you have a permissions problem so if you create the passwrds file with touch, you probably won't be able to add the password to it using htpasswd either.

> 

>Where are you creating these directories?  In the past when I used this, my passwd directory was /var/www/passwd/

 

I created /passwd/passwords in the main directory / and then ran the /usr/bin/htpasswd -c /passwd/passwords  famsite command.

I chmoded 777 the passwords dir so I don't think that's the problem.  I'm doing this as root.

 

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