[ms4w-users] ms4w - Application protection with password

[Ian Tidy]

Emmanuel,
 
Try something like this:
<Directory /var/www/sec>
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "NCC Restricted Area"
    AuthBasicProvider file
    AuthUserFile /var/www/sec/.htpasswd
    Require valid-user
</Directory>
 
I put this in the httpd.conf, but it could be in another files, just
make sure you "Include" it.  You also need to enable the Authentication
Modules in the httpd.conf file.  Also it is NOT a smart idea to put your
password file inside the website.  You also need to use htpasswd (or
something similar) to create and maintain your password file.
 
Have a look at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/auth.html and
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/htaccess.html for more details.

Cheers Ian 
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Works Asset Department
Napier City Council
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Sent: Wednesday, 20 February 2008 7:22 a.m.
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Subject: [ms4w-users] ms4w - Application protection with password


Dear friends

I have defined the following (as described in the ms4w installation
notes) 
in order to protect an ms4w application with password; but it does not
work...
(I tried it in Windows Vista)

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The application resides at c:/ms4w/apps/ITE/htdocs

The C:\ms4w\apps\ITE\htdocs\ht.acl file contains the following:

   AuthType Basic
   AuthUserFile "c:/ms4w/Apache/bin/passwdkml.txt"
   AuthName "Password Required"

   require valid-user
 
The C:\ms4w\httpd.d\httpd_ITE.conf file contains the following:

   Alias /ITE/ "/ms4w/apps/ITE/htdocs/"

   <Directory "/ms4w/apps/ITE/htdocs/">
     AllowOverride AuthConfig
     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Multiviews
   </Directory>

I have also added the following to the C:\ms4w\Apache\conf\httpd.conf

   AccessFileName  ht.acl .htcaccess

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Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks in advance!

Emmanuel.

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