Comments on: Set Apache Password Protected Directories With .htaccess File

By: Ritesh

Ritesh — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:15:14 +0000

Awesome article. Saved hours for me !

By: JB

JB — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:41:44 +0000

Set up SSL on apache2 Ubuntu. WOrks fine and prompts for password using http: but when you go the web server using https it does not prompt for a password. What configuration setting could be doing this?

By: Junior

Junior — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:33:21 +0000

Vivek everything works well on my box now… i made multiplier accoutn for diffrent directory with out a problem…my question is how can now make multiplier user id to access the same directory? I like to make about 5 user id in case one of the users id needs to be deleted or disable etc…

Thank yuo for your help!

By: Junior

Junior — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 16:47:00 +0000

awesome!!!! this works so well for me. I made multiply accounts for Secured directory and now are secured. Vivek you are the man thank you!

By: Jose

Jose — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 02:11:19 +0000

Just a quick note to say thanks for the post. I’m developing a website on a new VPS with Rackspace. My existing host provider, HostGator, provides a web interface for configuring .htaccess files in protected directories. However, after I installed the my chosen Linux distro (Ubuntu 10.04) I had to install LAMP. So, basically, I’m working from the command line in a bare bones server.

This post helped me configure password protection on my new bare bones server. Thanks again!

By: etoshx

etoshx — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:06:29 +0000

ive followed the above instructions but when i try to open the site its giving me errors like “The website declined to show this webpage ,This website requires you to log in.” this what am getting in the httpd error logs “[error] [client XX.XX.XX.XX] client denied by server configuration: /var/www/html/site1/”

By: 3.grosz

3.grosz — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:32:33 +0000

And now I figure it out. Thanks :)

By: Raymond

Raymond — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:25:24 +0000

Change directive
Require user vivek
to
Requre valid-user

will allow all users in the password file to access.

By: sim

sim — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:10:01 +0000

ThanXx very much m8 ..its work great ..

By: robert

robert — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:43:57 +0000

Sweet! Instructions worked great on my freebsd box. I am curious though: Why did you choose put the file in /home/secure/, instead of a etc directory? I followed your recommendation and made /home/secure/ and it works fine. I was just wondering if there was a reason one should not put it in /etc or /usr/local/etc/ ?

By: Marian Vlad

Marian Vlad — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:58:59 +0000

try htpasswd -m … ;) (and man htpasswd for more)

By: Joshua K

Joshua K — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:04:14 +0000

I’ve gone through these steps on Ubuntu Hardy twice and it still doesn’t work for me. Is there something I’m missing?

By: Mikhail

Mikhail — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:17:18 +0000

Have the same problem with 8-char password, but didn’t found the solution. Is there any way to fix it, please, explain more detailed.

By: vivek

vivek — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:41:57 +0000

jason,

You need to change password backend to mysql or ldap.

By: jason

jason — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:19:50 +0000

Thank you for great tips.
I did as said in here and it works great.
But, I have a question.
The password length that works is only max 8 char.
In other words, all I have to enter is the first 8 char for the password. After 8 ch, the characters are ignored.
Is there any way to increase the password length?

Thank you very much

By: MrGroove

MrGroove — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:26:02 +0000

Nice write-up. From the windows server standpoint running apache, check out http://www.groovypost.com/howto/apache/password-protect-apache-website/

By: Jo

Jo — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:27:19 +0000

I want use the Password Protect Directories for add user in automaticly whit a simple FORM PHP … Tanks for your good services :P

By: nixcraft

nixcraft — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:43:08 +0000

alka,

Browser remembers your password/username for current running session. If you close browser it will again prompt for the same.

HTH

By: alka

alka — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 06:21:40 +0000

When i provide the username & password, it works fine. But when i try to again access something from the same location in the same browser , it does not promt fot the username & password.
How can i do that?

By: nixcraft

nixcraft — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 03:09:00 +0000

Do you want information for Apache or IIS server?