pwd protecting a sub-dir in cgi-bin

[Frank_Rizzo]

How do I password protect a sub dir in cgi-bin?

I can password protect any sub dir in public_html, but not cgi-bin.

I guess there is some setting in apache which is preventing password protection in that directory?

Cheers.

[littleman]

Open up your httpd.conf file and something that looks like this:
<Directory "/path/to/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
other stuff here
</Directory>

Then modify it to something like this:
<Directory "/path/to/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride AuthConfig Limit
other stuff here
</Directory>
Then restart apache and it should work.

[Frank_Rizzo]

That did the trick.

Cheers.