.htaccess Files

Syntax

• .htaccess files are case sensitive!
• file permissions are very important
• check /var/log/httpd/error.log if anything fails

Sample Configuration of Apache and .htaccess

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
...
User nobody
Group nobody
...
AllowOverride AuthConfig
...

$ ls -la
total 4972
drwxr-xr-x    3 someuser     root         4096 Sep 11 20:41 .
drwxr-xr-x    4 someuser     nobody       4096 Sep 11 19:21 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 someuser     root      4430783 Sep  5 22:34 somefile
-rw-r--r--    1 someuser     root          119 Sep 11 17:17 .htaccess
drwxr-xr-x    2 someuser     root         4096 Sep 11 19:05 somedir

$ htpasswd2 -c /home/someuser/.htpasswd someuser     <- creates a new password file!
                          if you want to change an existing password file, omit '-c'
New password:
Re-type new password:

$ ls -la .htpasswd
-rw-r-r-    1 root     root           19 Sep 11 16:22 .htpasswd

.htaccess:
AuthUserFile /home/someuser/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "private section"
AuthType Basic
#SSLRequireSSL

require user someuser