Hi Everyone,

I was wondering if anyone could help me out with a problem Im having with setting up a password protected directory for my site.

THE HTACCESS Looks like
(this is the way go daddy suggests doing it. the 'username' is obviously my FTP username and the 'directory' is the directory I wanted to password protect)

AuthUserFile /home/content/j/s/c/username/directory/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName directoryname
AuthType Basic

require user username

THE HTPASSWD file looks like:
userw

I uploaded both documents to the directory folder and when i go to that specific path it asks me for a user/pw which is good but when i type in what i have in the HTPASSWD file, it says it's wrong.

Can anyone help me out? Please email me at jordan9092@aol.com

Thank you for all your help! I greatly appreciate it. I've been struggling for hours trying to figure it out!

Jordan

when i typed up the original HTPASSWORD file above, it misread it as a smilie face. it should be user colon password with no spaces between them..

thanks!

I use this tool to create the password. http://www.kxs.net/support/htaccess_pw.html

This tells you a bit more about the .htaccess file - http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess3.shtml

Thanks for the help.

I used the password link you sent me and uploaded it after I put it in but im still having problems... is there anything wrong with the way the HTACCESS is setup?

I put the HTACCESS and HTPASSWD File in the directory that i want password protected as well.

I dont get why it wont work... any thoughts? id appreciate any more help..

Thanks!
Jordan

You should put a ticket in to your webhost - there may be circumstances that aren't allowing you to do what you're trying to do.

Hey - I tried that... they wouldnt help

Can you post the contents of each file here so we can see. Use the [code] and [/code ] tags to display each page. For more help on how to use the [code] tags see here - http://www.d-a-l.com/help/misc.php?do=bbcode#code

e.g.

.htaccess page

Code:

This is the code in my .htaccess page

.htpasswd page

Code:

This is the code in my .htpasswd page

Thanks for the help....

FOR HTACCESS:

Code:

AuthUserFile /home/content/j/s/c/jschlecter/jasansherman/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName EnterPassword
AuthType Basic

require user jasan

for HTPASSWD

Code:

 
jasan:QjMmvZymQl.qA

Thanks!

does anyone know why it's not working?