mairving — Mon, 05 Apr 2004 21:11:13 +0000

Glad you got it working. As an FYI, the case doesn't matter in Windows but does in 'Nix (Linux, BSD, Unix, Mac).

CheeseMan — Mon, 05 Apr 2004 20:33:40 +0000

It worked!!...it worked!!!. I'm in seventh heaven!. Thank you everyone:). I've been fighting with this thing for days now!!.

CheeseMan — Mon, 05 Apr 2004 20:20:12 +0000

mairving wrote: Actually you are going to have to change things a little since Windows deals with paths differently:
htpasswd -c "C:\program files\apache group\apache2...\rest of path"
You have to use backslashes and put quotes around it since some of the directories contain spaces.

Well, I managed to bring up the CMD/DOS screen and run the Apache htpasswd utility but I need to be absolutely sure of the path and understand what I'm about to do here. Is the path I am specifying one which goes to the .htpasswd file itself and do I need to include it's name in the path like this...

htpasswd -c "C:\program files\apache group\apache2\.htpasswd"

or like this...

htpasswd -c "C:\program files\apache group\apache2\"

Does the cAsE of the path matter?. Should I give the .htpasswd file a prefix first (ie; secure.htpasswd) because I'm running WinXP?. Finally, after I do this, will I be able to go into this folder and see that the password has been encrypted?.

Sorry for all the questions btw...ahhh!!

Thank's

mairving — Mon, 05 Apr 2004 19:58:41 +0000

Actually you are going to have to change things a little since Windows deals with paths differently:
htpasswd -c "C:\program files\apache group\apache2...\rest of path"
You have to use backslashes and put quotes around it since some of the directories contain spaces.

CheeseMan — Mon, 05 Apr 2004 19:42:54 +0000

mairving wrote: Run it from the command line, Start/Run/cmd...

Welcome to WMF.

Thank's for the welcome!. Ok, so in my .htpasswd file, located at...

"C:Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\"

I have the following...

shoefly:greenman

Now, based on this, what path do I use in the following command I was given earlier? (I don't have a "/usr/local/apache/passwd/passwords" path anywhere on my machine)...

htpasswd -c /usr/local/apache/passwd/passwords username

I assume the "-c" tells Apache that I am using drive c and that the "username" is the username I wish to use, correct?

Thank's again for helping out an .htaccess newbie:)

mairving — Mon, 05 Apr 2004 19:28:43 +0000

Run it from the command line, Start/Run/cmd...

Welcome to WMF.

CheeseMan — Mon, 05 Apr 2004 19:20:09 +0000

mairving wrote: You need to create the password using the .htpassword utility.

I just want to say that I really appreciate your help. I can change the name of the .htaccess file to something like "secure.htaccess" (since I've heard that Windows does'nt like files without a prefix) if you think it would work better. I tried the htpasswd.exe tool but when I ran it (by simply double-clicking it) it brought a DOS screen up for about 2 seconds and then it dissapeared before I was able to read it. Does the password have to be encrypted?. I tried it earlier using an .htaccess online encryption tool but it still did'nt work.

mairving — Mon, 05 Apr 2004 18:40:02 +0000

You need to create the password using the .htpassword utility.

Quote: from Apache's site
To create the file, type:

htpasswd -c /usr/local/apache/passwd/passwords username
htpasswd will ask you for the password, and then ask you to type it again to confirm it: