[ale] .htaccess

[Terry Bailey]

The answer is "yes" to all of your questions.  A funny thing.  If I 
try to access one of the files in /var/www/html/admin (e.g., 
/var/www/html/admin/add.htm) the username/password popup does not 
happen.  However, if I try to access this same file from a menu URL 
(i.e., /var/www/html/admin/menu.htm) then the popup occurs.  Note 
that /var/www/html is the document root.  The .htaccess file is in 
the directory /var/www/html/admin. However 
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/admin nor 
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/admin/menu.htm forces a username/password popup.

At 05:21 PM 3/7/2008, you wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Terry Bailey <terry at bitlinx.com> wrote:
> > 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:
>
>is it world readable?
>
> >  AuthName ByPassword
> >  AuthType Basic
> >  AuthUserFile /usr/local/adminuser
> >  Require valid-user
>
>is /usr/local/adminuser readable by the Apache userid?
>
> >  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?
>
>AllowOverride AuthConfig
>
>
>-Jim P.
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