[ale] .htaccess

[Terry Bailey]

Hi,

I have a directory structure in Fedora core 5 as follows:

/var/www/html/admin

In admin there is a .htaccess file that contains the following information:

AuthName ByPassword
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /usr/local/adminuser
Require valid-user

This works in Solaris 9 but, for some reason, the user/password popup 
does not happen in Fedora.  Is there something that I need to do in 
the httpd.conf file?

In both cases the adminuser file has been built using htpasswd.

I think there is a way to restrict access to a directory with 
username/password by just using the httpd.conf file, but I do not 
know how to do it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Terry Bailey