Trying to password protect webpages, Having trouble logging in Options

[czwief]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to password protect a couple of webpages on my server. I'm creating a sample website where I work to give advertisers an easy place to look at stuff we've done for them. Can someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong here? The website is here: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~zwief005

Here are the codes for a couple of the pages...

Under the "qwest" directory, here's the .htaccess:

CODE

AuthType Basic
AuthName "restricted area"
AuthUserFile \protect\qwest\.htpasswd
require qwest

And the qwest .htpasswd:

CODE

qwest:qwest

Dodge's .htaccess:

CODE

AuthType Basic
AuthName "restricted area"
AuthUserFile \~zwief005\protect\dodge\.htpasswd
require valid-user

Dodge's .htpasswd:

CODE

dodge:dodge

If you need any more information, please let me know. Thanks in advance!

[imort]

Dodge's .htpasswd:

CODE

dodge:dodge

If you need any more information, please let me know. Thanks in advance!

Hey

You need to provide the user password hash in the .htpasswd file instead of plain text password.
Take a look here for the usable tool: http://www.htaccesstools.com/htpasswd-generator/

You also need to use the absolute path to the file and make sure that apache has read permissions to this file too.
Check which user the apache process is running by and check file permissions.
You can also change the file owner to that user to keep it simple.