I'm trying to setup a directory on my website with a password and I keep getting Internal Server Error:
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request....
What could be the cause?
I have all my files in folder named "PasswordProtected". In this folder I have file .htaccess :
AuthType Basic
AuthName "restricted area"
AuthUserFile /main/PasswordProtected/.htpasswd
require valid-user
and I also have file .htpasswd :
user:isFu5zSvpK5Xg
When it type url http://domain.com/main/PasswordProtected/index.html on the browser
I do get prompted to enter user name and password but then I get the error message.
Am I doing something wrong in here?
All I need is a one user one password setup to demo the site
I'll appreciate any advice. Thank you.
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I have an simple .htaccess and a .passwd file for a password protection of an folder under apache2: /var/www/test
Works fine if i want to connect to example.com/test.
But in the test folder is also a download.exe. If i connect to example.com/test/download.exe i can download the file without being asked for a username and a password.
How can i change that? The .htaccess file:
AuthType Basic
AuthName "protected area"
AuthUserFile /var/www/test/.passwd
Require valid-user
Try a different browser or a different computer to access example.com/test/download.exe before accessing example.com/test. Browsers you are using can have cached the downloaded file or the credentials used.
I always get this error:
Internal Server Error
?The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster#stage.mysite.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a
500 Internal Server Error
error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.2.24 (Unix) mod_hive/4.0 mod_ssl/2.2.24 OpenSSL/1.0.0-fips mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at stage.mysite.com Port 80
Here's what I've done in the htaccess file:
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Password Protected Area"
AuthUserFile "/home/feli33/public_html/.htpasswd"
Require valid-user
and in the root of the public html folder I have my .passwd file:
the only thing in it is a username and an md6 hash:
admin:li3fFizhXCgMU
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
This is how my .htaccess looks like. I've created my .htpasswd file by running htpasswd -c .htpasswd username. The password is pass.
AuthType basic
AuthName "private area"
AuthUserFile "/var/www/path/to/.htpasswd"
Require valid-user
Command to create .htpasswd file.
htpasswd -c .htpasswd username
.htpasswd file.
username:$apr1$QC6hD31s$I/uGkzaIrnUp/5sSURRH00
I have tried the instructions in this guide
http://titanfusion.net/how-to-protect-wp-login-php-using-htaccess-and-htpasswd/
I only got "error, webserver misconfigured" with that setup.
I also tried the following on the wp-admin directory (but even if below coda HAD worked, that wouldn't protect the actual login page, only the wp-admin sites behind the login form, I think.
in .htaccess:
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Password Required"
AuthUserFile /www/passwords/password.file
and then I used a web generator for the actual password-file so that should be ok.
Anyone know of a working guide how to set it up?
If your .htaccess file is in the some folder like your password.file you can try this:
AuthUserFile password.file
I am attempting to set up htaccess to restrict access to a particular folder. I currently have as follows:
Htaccess:
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted area"
AuthUserFile /home3/user/public_html/.htpasswd
require valid-user
ErrorDocument 404 "Error"
ErrorDocument 401 "Error"
ErrorDocument 403 "Error"
htpasswd:
Guest:GuestPassword
Using this method I will either have a 500 server error returned, OR it will loop and continuously prompt me for authentication.
Any help is appreciated!
ALSO: I used showphp() to get the Document root. So AuthUserFile path should be correct.
Thanks!
The infinite loop asking for your password is what you want to see. That means you typed in your password wrong. The Internal Server 500 Error means you have another issue in your code. The reason your username and password aren't working is because your server expects the password to be hashed.
Change your .htpasswd file to:
Guest:$apr1$u5E5vgOR$6rPNEYkeaF5IVE4c3FyKM0
(The password is GuestPassword)
I had a production server which used to authenticate user before granting access. I setup a new machine and copied files from the old server. Now, I can access pages fine, but it does not ask for username and password. When I checked the value of $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] is returns nothing.
Is a way to activate it on the server or I missed any file while copying it from old server ?
Check the .htaccess file on the old server. There is probably something like:
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "admin"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /home/path/to/.htpasswd/public_html/admin/.htpasswd
require valid-user
That's what's doing the authentication, not PHP.