A short tutorial on password protection @ Radio Free Blogistan

December 15, 2003

Christopher L. Filkins

You'll need shell access. Type 'which htpasswd' to which something along the lines of '/bin/htpasswd' or '/usr/bin/htpasswd' will be returned. Make note of path, use it in path before the -c switch in the next input sequence. Type:

'/bin/htpasswd -c /path/to/radiofreeblogistan/edit/.htpasswd radiofreeblogistan'

Enter password twice upon prompt. Open text editor, type:

AuthUserFile /path/to/radiofreeblogistan/edit/.htpasswd
AuthName Radio Free Blogistan
AuthType Basic
<Limit GET>
require user radiofreeblogistan
</Limit>

Posted by filchyboy at December 15, 2003 10:22 PM

Comments

Thanks. I followed those steps. I think the problem is a missing AllowOverride All declaration in my httpd.conf - without it, the server is ignoring my .htaccess file. I'll look into that ASAP.

Posted by: xian at December 16, 2003 10:55 AM