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> Jim, you forget that he's using .htaccess, the above cannot work there. He <BR>> has to leave that out.<BR>> <BR>> Pam: if you can access the directory just fine this does *not* mean that <BR>> you misconfigured your .htaccess file (although it looked like that as <BR>> well), it means it is not getting used at all. An .htaccess file that is <BR>> not allowed by server config or that contains wrong configuration throws a <BR>> 500 Internal Server Error. You have also been told a while back I think <BR>> that you should look in the logs. Did you do that? I don't remember having <BR>> seen any response from you about that.<BR>> Do the following: place a single fake command like "this is a fake <BR>> command" in your .htaccess file and then access the directory. If you <BR>> don't get a 500 error, the file is not getting used. Which means next step <BR>> is to check your logs and your configuration why it's not getting used and <BR>> also double-check that it's in the correct directory and you access the <BR>> correct directory (as I don't know what content you have there this <BR>> content may either be identifying it uniquely or not).<BR>> <BR>> You should also read the Apache documentation at httpd.apache.org, it may <BR>> help you find that probably tiny mistake that you make, but we can't tell <BR>> you as we don't see all of the picture. You should also read up on how you <BR>> can achieve the password protection without an .htaccess file. This file <BR>> is completely unnecessary if you have access to the apache conf, anyway.<BR>
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OK, I put the fake command in and now I'm getting an error via web page:<BR>
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<H1>Internal Server Error</H1>
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.<BR>
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Here are the last two log file entries for that httpd request:<BR>
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12.34.567.89 - - [19/Apr/2008:13:46:23 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 500 616<BR>12.34.567.89 - - [19/Apr/2008:13:47:12 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 20<BR><BR>
I Changed the IP's.<BR><BR>
I guess there were two seperate errors, the last error - even when I corrected and removed the fake<BR>
command and reloaded, I could not access the site, so the second error indicates the fake message removed<BR>
but all else being (supposedly) correct the same in the conf.d file. Then I deleted .htaccess and .htpasswd and now I can<BR>
again access the site again.<BR>
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