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I have an HTACCESS as follows:

AuthUserFile /home/nasht00/.htmydomain
AuthName "EnterPassword"
AuthType Basic
Require valid-user

When I try it, the password pop-up appears. Whatever I enter in it, I get a 500 Internal Server Error.

My password file is under /home/nasht00/.htmydomain . Its owner is nasht00:www-data (nasht00 is my user, www-data is the group that apache2 belongs to). File permissions on that file is 775.

What am I missing?

If I try without the htaccess it works fine of course.

I have Ubuntu 9.10 with apache2.

nute
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2 Answers2

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The user or group httpd is running as needs read access to the directories leading to the file in order to be able to get to it.

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
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Ok, got it, I'm not sure why but it works if I put my password file under "/var/www/". I kept the same user/group and permissions.

nute
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