Ladies and Gentlemen, What I have done thus far, keeping in mind that I am extremely new to Apache, to the server. I am attempting to get basic authentication for a directory on my website. I have created the .htaccess and it looks like the following: AuthName "Please Authenticate" AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/ Apache2.2/htdocs/Members Only/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile /Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/ Apache2.2/htdocs/Members Only/.htgroup require user Admin Code (markup): I have also created the .htpasswd file by locating the directory from the command line, executing the htpasswd.exe command. The file exists, user is correct and I am assuming that the pw is correct. I don't know at this point because its encrypted but beyond that I can't get the authentication box to appear to begin with. I have double checked my .conf file, all modules required for basic authentication have been loaded. However I continually get this dreaded damn error in my log file. I have no made any additional directives in my conf file per every walkthrough/how-to I have looked at have said nothing about them. Is there anyway people here can start feeding me ideas because I keep going around in circles. The index root works fine for the site when I try to go into the restricted area I am thrown an internal server error. I wish I had more but I have exhausted my other online resources. I am lost and I don't know what else to configure and I know this is most likely based off of my inexperience with Apache. BTW if it helps I am running this on Windows 7 Pro.
Ok update, I have played with this some more and I have removed the .htaccess file in favor of putting it directly into the <Directory> and when I do that the service will not even restart. However, if I keep the AllowOverride set to AuthConfig I just get a forbidden error and in my book that is progress. I still can NOT make the .htaccess and the .htpasswd file link up and its starting to piss me off. Any one have any suggestions they can shoot off of that? One question I have is if I edit the conf file directory to reflect authorization required how is it done? Is there a specific order in which the commands need to be in? Here is my current directory in conf, someone wanna give me an example of how I would edit this directory to make it work? I mean just give me templated syntax. Even that at this point would help. <Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/Members Only"> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride AuthConfig Order deny,allow Deny from all </Directory>