.htpasswd / .htaccess not working, throwing 500 or 403 errors

tomharto · 06-20-2012, 09:49 AM

I'm trying to password protect a one page on my site using htpasswd and htaccess

heres the files

.htaccess

Code:

AuthUserFile /home/sites/mysite.com/public_html/.htpasswd
AuthType Basic
AuthName "My Secret Page"

<Files "mypage.php">
  Require valid-user
</Files>

.htpasswd

Code:

username:99K2CQ/U.VJ3Q

When i load any page at on my site using those files i get a 500 Internal server error, however if i load mypage.php using https i get 403 forbidden error. Can anyone see a problem with those files/ know what else could be causing the error?

firepages · 06-21-2012, 10:50 AM

first off you need to make sure that you don't have

AllowOverride none in your apache2.conf (or virtual conf file)

it needs to be at least

AllowOverride AuthConfig

& perhaps try

Code:

<FilesMatch mypage.php>
AuthUserFile /user/home/www/directory/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "MySecretFile"
AuthType Basic
require valid-user
</FilesMatch>