[wplug] Apache HTTP Access issue

[Bill Moran]

"Wise, Jeremey" <jeremey.wise at agilysys.com> wrote:
> I have a small website. I want to have the home page public / anonymous
> accessable. Any subpages will then require a password.
> 
>  
> 
> Example 
> 
>  
> 
> www.stupid.com/index.html and all files are public which are found in
> /var/www/html/stuipid/*
> 
>  
> 
> BUT
> 
>  
> 
> www.stupid.com/members/index.html and all content will be only usable
> via "stupid" group /var/www/html/stupid/members/*
> 
>  
> 
>  I have read 
> 
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/auth.html#basicworks
> 
> http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/html/97/08/index2a_page2.html?tw=ba
> ckend
> 
>  
> 
> Which seemed to make the process seem easy.
> 
>  
> 
> ******************************
> 
> I created in /var/www/http/stupid/members/
> 
>  
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 apache stupid  126 Sep 21 13:53 .htaccess
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 apache stupid 1.1K Sep 20 14:24 .htgroup
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 apache stupid   20 Sep 21 14:52 .htpasswd
> 
>  
> 
> And in each file are the proper entries (IMHO)
> 
> [root at venus Members]# cat .htaccess
> 
> AuthUserFile .htpasswd
> 
> AuthGroupFile .htgroup
> 
> AuthName stupid
> 
> AuthType Basic
> 
>  
> 
> [root at venus Members]# cat .htgroup
> 
> stupid: wisej bob henry
> 
>  
> 
> [root at venus Members]# cat .htpasswd
> 
> wisej:nMiDsEWj8nA2gw
> 
> bob:st2gMRbwkfGWe4g
> 
>  
> 
> *****************
> 
>  
> 
> When I go to the site I get the first page fine but all urls which
> direct into the /var/www/html/stupid/members directory are:
> 
> 
> Forbidden
> 
> 
> You don't have permission to access /members/stupidinfo.html on this
> server.
> 
> I also googled and found refernaces to change the /etc/httpd/conf/
> httpd.conf entry of:
> 
> #    AllowOverride None
> 
>      AllowOverride All
> 
> But this had no effect.

You really seem to like blank space in your emails.

If you move the various .ht* files out of the way, does the problem still
exist?  If so, check the file permissions to be sure apache has the
ability to read the files/directories.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com