CentOS - Apr 2008 - Can't get .htaccess to work

Hi,

I'm trying to password protect one of my web accessable 
directories and I can't get .htaccess to work in a Centos 5.1 box
Here's what I did

I created an .htaccess file with the contents:

AuthName "Restricted Area" 
AuthType Basic 
AuthUserFile /home/mysite/.htpasswd 
AuthGroupFile /dev/null 
require valid-user

and I uploaded it to the dir I want to protect.  Then I created my password 
outside of my web dir with the command: htpasswd -c .htpasswd pam
then followed password prompts, created my password.

So then I go to the site, and am not seeing any password required box,
I can see site without a login.

So then I figured it's not turned on in apache, and went to httpd.conf and
changed
AllowOverride None to AllowOverride AuthConfig

When I reload, apache will not reload.

What am I doing wrong?
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Pam Astor wrote:
> When I reload, apache will not reload.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
I suspect your only fault is not checking the logs..
Right after you issue service httpd start,
go look at /var/log/messages and /var/log/httpd/*

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Cheers,
Morten
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On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Pam Astor wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to password protect one of my web accessable
> directories and I can't get .htaccess to work in a Centos 5.1 box
> Here's what I did
>
> I created an .htaccess file with the contents:
>
> AuthName "Restricted Area"
> AuthType Basic
> AuthUserFile /home/mysite/.htpasswd
> AuthGroupFile /dev/null
> require valid-user
>
> and I uploaded it to the dir I want to protect.  Then I created my password
> outside of my web dir with the command: htpasswd -c .htpasswd pam
> then followed password prompts, created my password.
>
> So then I go to the site, and am not seeing any password required box,
> I can see site without a login.
>
> So then I figured it's not turned on in apache, and went to httpd.conf
and changed
> AllowOverride None to AllowOverride AuthConfig
>
> When I reload, apache will not reload.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
The syntax for auth stuff changed between Apache 2.0 and 2.2 (which is 
used in CentOS 5). In particular, you'll need a AuthBasicProvider 
declaration:

   http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_auth_basic.html#authbasicprovider

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