.htaccess crisis!

[tomthumb]

Im trying to build a password protected area and have created the .htaccess and .htpasswd files and loaded them to the FTP server.

When I got to the site and click the link, the password box comes up though says i've entered the wrong password when I try to get in.

Anyway, I think it's something in the "AuthUserFile" part of the script in the .htaccess file.

Could anyone let me know, in idiots language, what the path here should be?

Any help would be great

[mack]

AuthName Your-protected-area
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /path/to/your/file/called/.htpasswd

The file path is not a "web url" it is a serer path. If you are unsure of the path you should contact you host.

It may be possible that you host does not support htaccess.

Hope this is of some help. Perhaps someone with a little more info on this will chime in. :)

Mack.

[coopster]

You have to create the password on the server that will be using the

.htpasswd

file, you can't key it into a text file and FTP it over. Apache has a utility for this called htpasswd [httpd.apache.org].

[ukgimp]

just a guess but i reckon you may have problems when you coem to edit the file or delete it. When you cant see the file in ftp application you need to ype in "-la" in the white empty box.

Had me that did once.

[tomthumb]

thanks guys (or girls) - i think i've cracked it with that advice.

I was doing a number of things wrong (including FTPing it over as a normal file an using a URL as the path!)

Oh well, live and learn