Topic: .htaccess and .htpasswd

[GraemeDonaldson]

Have just installed sme and running fine, i want to protect the phpmyadmin folder in my primary folder with .htaccess and .htpasswd files but i cannot get mine to work, so far i have

in my .htaccess

AuthType Basic
AuthName "Phpmyadmin"
AuthUserFile /home/e-smith/files/primary/html/phpmyadmin/.htpasswd
require valid-user

and my usernames and passwords in my .htpaswd(i used a website to generate my passwords http://help.powweb.com/cgi-bin/crypt.cgi)

But not working so if anyone knows where im goin wrong pleae help
Thanks
Graeme

[TibaL]

Have you installed the htaccess contribution ?
You will find it at http://contribs.org

TibaL

[GraemeDonaldson]

Hi, no i've not installed any extra packages, i went to the website and seached for .htaccess but the links are in active is there anyway you could email me the rpms please

Thanks
Graeme

[Unit]

check here

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/nightspirit/e-smith-htaccess/GraemeDonaldson wrote:
>
> Hi, no i've not installed any extra packages, i went to the
> website and seached for .htaccess but the links are in active
> is there anyway you could email me the rpms please
>
> Thanks
> Graeme