found this in my .htaccess

Can you please tell me what this is doing?
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<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName www.mydomxin.com
AuthUserFile /usr/local/4admin/apache/vhosts/mydomxin.com/httpdocs/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /usr/local/4admin/apache/vhosts/mydomxin.com/httpdocs/_vti_pvt/service.grp

 

The <limit GET POST> section tells the server to accept a GET or POST HTTP request from anyone.

The <limit PUT DELETE> section tells the server not to accept PUT or DELETE HTTP requests from anyone.

The last 3 lines have to do with prompting you for a password when you access that directory in your browser.
AuthName is basicly a title for the password prompt.
AuthUserFile handles name based logins.
AuthGroupFile handles group based logins.

 

Thanks joebert.

Hmm, wonder why it is there, there are no logins or passwords at the site.

 

Directories/Files with "_vti" in the beginning of the name usually have somthing to do with Frontpage extensions.

 

if you have no Frontpage relevant content on your site, you may safely remove all your above quoted lines ( ###out-comment first - then remove after successful test) .
may be that server default .htaccess is included for frontpage ppl

to the best of my 10 yrs of linux experience, in normal linux hosting is no need/no use for such .htaccess lines at all