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> just my two cents. The command 'htpasswd -c /passwd/passwords famsite' <BR>> will do two things: create the password file called passwords in the <BR>> /passwd directory, and add the user famsite to it. So, the directory <BR>> /passwd must exist, and you did that. However, passwords is a file and <BR>> you said you created that directory. This is wrong. If it existed as a <BR>> file then htpasswd would recreate it (with the -c option) but I don't <BR>> think it would work if passwords was a directory.<BR>> <BR>> Because you're doing all this as root I don't think it's a permission <BR>> problem. However, as others pointed out, because the passwords file will <BR>> have to be accessible by the user who runs Apache, then you will need to <BR>> sort that out later.<BR>> <BR>> Hope this helps. Also, if you type just htpasswd with nothing else you <BR>> should have a nice help.<BR>> <BR>> Giulio<BR>
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AAhhhh - Thanks Giulio!<BR>
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That was the problem I feel pretty dumb now :)<BR>
I deleted the password dir, then chmoded 777 passwd instead,<BR>
re ran the command and htpasswd created the user and password AOK.<BR>
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