Comments on: Windows, Apache and .htaccess authentication

By: Tejas Tank

Tejas Tank — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:16:46 +0000

this is such excellent document for system admin

but i have problem

that in my window server WAMP

reweriterule not working ??

i want that with win server

By: Lee Wright

Lee Wright — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:12:08 +0000

Thanks for the great tutorial, sniptools.
I get as far as the username password dialog box, but, somehow not allowing access, if you will, please take a look at the .htaccess file and make any recommendations, please? thanks.
Somehow i cannot find your email address.
Please contact me lee@techsurgeongeneral.com
and i will respond with the .htaccess file, thanks again.

By: Karl Bishop

Karl Bishop — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:45:02 +0000

Hi, thanks for the tutorial. I’ve just been doing this and it worked for restricting access to php/html files within ‘my secret area’, but for some reason I can still enter names of zip files into my address bar and Firefox will let me download them. Do you know how I can stop this?

By: andie

andie — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:57:38 +0000

i’m trying to overwrite the file httpd.conf but it won’t let me… It saya i don’t have the permission to save on it. What can i do?

By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:57:14 +0000

Great tutorial. I am however getting a similar error message that Mangal got. I am getting an invalid command “AuthUseFile” message. I checked my .conf file and found that

LoadModule auth_basic_module libexec/apache22/mod_auth_basic.so

is uncommented. Any ideas?

By: artiajans.net

artiajans.net — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:02:37 +0000

Thanks you but i am find to who to active htaccess file on apache web server on windows server. Please help to this subject :S

By: tcassio

tcassio — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:02:15 +0000

Hello,
I have a problem and can’t find the answer anywhere, maybe you can help.
First:
I am running the latest version of XAMPP setup on a windows XP machine.
I have htaccess working okay. I generated the passwords using the htpasswd.exe file in the Apache/bin folder.

Here is my problem.
I was looking for a web based manager to manage users. The ones I have tried all have been PHP based. The problem is that the passwords that are generated through PHP are different than the ones created using the htpasswd.exe file in the Apache/bin folder. As a results when I am prompted to login the passwords do not work.

It appears that the password that is entered at the login prompt are different that thoes created thru PHP.

Is there a setting in Windows that is causing this?
Is there something that I need to set in PHP to fix this?

By: Alper ÖZCAN

Alper ÖZCAN — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:25:46 +0000

A lot of things (like .htaccess problem in Windows Server, httpd.conf AllowOverride strring etc..) has a problem for me for a while.

But i googled around the world. Only this page & some comments helps a lot!

Big thank you “sniptools”! I like you!

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:47:49 +0000

I googled for a full day trying to get this right. Wish I would’ve found this page first! Thanks a million!!!!!

By: BitchX

BitchX — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:00:01 +0000

Hall - you need to check the apache error log, and the windows application log and it will show you the answer.