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> just my two cents. The command 'htpasswd -c /passwd/passwords famsite' > will do two things: create the password file called passwords in the > /passwd directory, and add the user famsite to it. So, the directory > /passwd must exist, and you did that. However, passwords is a file and > you said you created that directory. This is wrong. If it existed as a > file then htpasswd would recreate it (with the -c option) but I don't > think it would work if passwords was a directory. > > Because you're doing all this as root I don't think it's a permission > problem. However, as others pointed out, because the passwords file will > have to be accessible by the user who runs Apache, then you will need to > sort that out later. > > Hope this helps. Also, if you type just htpasswd with nothing else you > should have a nice help. > > Giulio AAhhhh - Thanks Giulio! That was the problem I feel pretty dumb now :) I deleted the password dir, then chmoded 777 passwd instead, re ran the command and htpasswd created the user and password AOK. Thanks again, now on to step two... Going green? See the top 12 foods to eat organic. |
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