Hi Thanks to you all for the great help. Have it sorted now and all working - thanks. Regards Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matthew Saltzman > Sent: 26 July 2004 20:28 > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: Re: htaccess woes > > On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, kenwardc wrote: > > > Hi All > > > > My first post to this forum so be gentle! ;-) > > > > Have just installed a new Linux Red Hat server and am trying to > > protect the phpMyAdmin folder with .htaccess. Having trouble and > > wanted to know if there were any experts out there! > > > > 1. I go to the folder I wish to protect 2. I type htpasswd > -c htaccess > > username 3. I am prompted for the password and the retype 4. File > > appears to save OK. > > > > If I then try to access that folder I get the web page > straight away. > > Most frustrating - I was expecting it to as for a password. > > > > Any help gratefully accepted. > > > > Regards > > Chris > > Look up Allow, Deny, Order, AllowOverride in the Apache > config documents and make sure the site/directory in question > is configured properly in /etc/httpd/httpd.conf. > > HTH. > -- > Matthew Saltzman > > Clemson University Math Sciences > mjs AT clemson DOT edu > http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > --- All messages scanned by AVG 7.0 Anti-Virus scanner and TGIS Anti-Spam Firewall. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list