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From: Neil Mansilla <neil@aol2.com>
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Apache 1.1.1 .htaccess problem
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 19:08:31 -0400
Organization: Almighty Online
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To: Jay Field <jay@cate.santarosa.edu>

Jay wrote:
> I am just upgraded from NCSA 1.4 to Apache 1.1.1 and now all of my
> password protected directories no longer prompt for a username and
> password.  I thought the .htaccess control mechanism was the same.
> 
> I am running this under Linux 1.2.13
> 
> any ideas for what I need to change?

Hey Jay,

In your access.conf, make sure that it looks like this..
(of course, custom to your web root doc directory)

--

<Directory /usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs>
AllowOverride All
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>

--

With the default access.conf, I believe that it says
AllowOverride None, and that doesn't allow .htaccess
to do it's magic.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

Sincerely,
Neil Mansilla
Almighty Online