First off, new to the group, greetings all.
I have a number of scanned old family images I want to make available for family members to browse and download, so what I thought I would do is just create an "images" folder on one of my domains and make it password protected so when the correct username/pwd was entered then a listing of the directory would show.
The domain itself is running apache on linux, my home test server is running apache (xampp) on W7. In my domain folder I created an .htaccess file to look like this:
AuthUserFile http://mydomain.com/images/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "Secure Document"
AuthType Basic
<LIMIT GET PUT POST>
require user myusername
</LIMIT>
I hit enter to put a blank line at the end of the file, then uploaded it to the folder I want people to have access to.
I then created a .htpasswd file on this site: [
tools.dynamicdrive.com...] and uploaded the file to the folder on my site. I was going to use the htpasswd executable on my local machine, but thought the windows encryption would not work on the host.
Anyway, I did create one locally as well, and when I try to access the folder itself, on either the local test or on my domain, I am not getting prompted for a user/password, but am getting a server error, on the localhost its a "error 500"
I am missing something here, can anyone suggest what it may be?
thanks!
