From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 2 07:33:56 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB236106564A for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2009 07:33:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stanb@panix.com) Received: from mail1.panix.com (mail1.panix.com [166.84.1.72]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F3498FC08 for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2009 07:33:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stanb@panix.com) Received: from mailbackend.panix.com (mailbackend.panix.com [166.84.1.89]) by mail1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F96429403 for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2009 02:33:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from teddy.fas.com (c-76-26-198-188.hsd1.sc.comcast.net [76.26.198.188]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3232DF359 for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2009 02:33:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1LIeXa-0001AI-00 for ; Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:33:54 -0500 Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 02:33:54 -0500 From: stan To: Free BSD Questions list Message-ID: <20090102073354.GA4245@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: Free BSD Questions list Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.23 X-Uptime: 02:26:00 up 235 days, 8:48, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Stan Brown Subject: An Apache2 configuration question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:33:56 -0000 I'm setting up a 7.1 machine thta will server as, among other things, a web serrver. I've installed Apache2. I have some directores in the Apache documnet directory that I wish to pasword protect. I have added the following clause to /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf. I have created a In the directories that I want protected, I have created .htaccess files that look like this: AuthName "Pictures" AuthType "Basic" AuthUserFile /usr/local/etc/apache22/users2 require valid-user I have used htpasswd to create the users2 file. Ecerything works the way that I want _execpt_ the top level web page directory index, does not display the directories that have .htaccess files in them. What do I need to do to fix this? -- One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.