I am trying to configure an apache virtualhost which needs to be password protected in the root directory.
So I created a .htpasswd file (with sha passwords) and configured the .htaccess file. Howevery whatever I do, on the webpage I get an error 500 (internal server error) and in the error.log I see this:
/var/www/ninja/www/.htaccess: deny not allowed here or if I leave the deny out of the .htaccess:
AuthUserFile not allowed here Both .htpasswd and .htaccess file are readable for apache and are set to the www-data user and group. I also tried adding these rules to the virtualhost config file but that didn't do the trick either.
Can you please help me out?
Thanks!
config file apache:
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost ServerName ninja DocumentRoot /var/www/ninja/www ServerAlias ninja <Directory /var/www/ninja/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride FileInfo Indexes Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. LogLevel warn CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined </VirtualHost> htaccess file: (placed in /var/www/ninja/www/)
Deny from all #Allow from (You may set IP here / to access without password) AuthUserFile /var/www/ninja/.htpasswd AuthName authorization AuthType Basic require valid-user Here is an ls of the mods-enabled directory
alias.conf -> ../mods-available/alias.conf alias.load -> ../mods-available/alias.load auth_basic.load -> ../mods-available/auth_basic.load authn_file.load -> ../mods-available/authn_file.load authz_default.load -> ../mods-available/authz_default.load authz_groupfile.load -> ../mods-available/authz_groupfile.load authz_host.load -> ../mods-available/authz_host.load authz_user.load -> ../mods-available/authz_user.load autoindex.conf -> ../mods-available/autoindex.conf autoindex.load -> ../mods-available/autoindex.load cgi.load -> ../mods-available/cgi.load deflate.conf -> ../mods-available/deflate.conf deflate.load -> ../mods-available/deflate.load dir.conf -> ../mods-available/dir.conf dir.load -> ../mods-available/dir.load env.load -> ../mods-available/env.load mime.conf -> ../mods-available/mime.conf mime.load -> ../mods-available/mime.load negotiation.conf -> ../mods-available/negotiation.conf negotiation.load -> ../mods-available/negotiation.load php5.conf -> ../mods-available/php5.conf php5.load -> ../mods-available/php5.load reqtimeout.conf -> ../mods-available/reqtimeout.conf reqtimeout.load -> ../mods-available/reqtimeout.load setenvif.conf -> ../mods-available/setenvif.conf setenvif.load -> ../mods-available/setenvif.load status.conf -> ../mods-available/status.conf status.load -> ../mods-available/status.load 
