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Hey guys,
I am following the instructions here: http://www.nfoservers.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=3736 however I must have done something wrong and can't figure out what.

After following those instructions I attempted to login to my password protected directory, but instead it brought me to my custom error page. Now when I try to access that directory again it brings me straight to the error page, without letting me attempt to login again. I am fairly confident that I used the correct login information that I used.

The only thing I can think of is when I created the password hash, I ticked the MD5 box. Am I not supposed to?

Cheers!

Yes, you will need to use a regular password and not an MD5 one.

Thanks,
However now I seem to be locked out of the directory haha. Anytime I try to go to it, it takes me to my error page.
If I disable the .htaccess and .htpasswd files then I can access it, but while theyre enabled it wont let me.

Okay I was able to generate a normal hash and not an MD5 hash. I uploaded that to my .htpasswd and tried to access the directory again, but it still didn't work. I used the login info I made and it still sent me to my error page.

Not quite sure what i'm doing wrong at this point. In the .htaccess, for this line:
AuthUserFile /usr/www/USERNAME/DIRECTORY_TO_PROTECT/.htpasswd

Username is the username given to me by nfo for the ftp to my website, correct?

Then in .htpasswd for this line:
LOGIN_NAME:HASHED_PASSWORD

LOGIN_NAME is anything I want it to be, correct? I can make one up?
Then HASHED_PASSWORD, I made a new password, put it in the hash generator, then copy pasted the Hashed password.

Anything i'm doing wrong?

Yes, that's correct. It is your identifier (all lowercase).


Yes.


That is correct, yes.

Hm, so it seems I did everything correctly. Any idea why I wouldn't be able to log in successfully?

Could you post your .htaccess and .htpasswd full files here?

No problemo,
I had to rename them to .txt to upload them, but in the ftp theyre renamed to .htaccess and .htpasswd. I also edited just the FTP login part and the directory, to avoid problems, but they are indeed correct on my ftp.

htaccess
htpasswd

You can just paste them directly here, in [code] blocks . Easier, faster, and more permanent than doing an attachment or uploading them somewhere else.

Ahhh right, haha, my bad!

htaccess


htpasswd

Hmm, that does appear to be correct.

When logging into the directory, with those files, my login details would be:
Username: admin
Password: the password I typed in to get hashed, not the actual hashed password, right?

I don't know what else I could be doing wrong. Tried many times without success.

Yes, that's correct.

Hmm, do you have any ideas why it wouldn't be working?

Not very many, unfortunately. You could triple-check that the files are in the right places and with the right permissions, and make sure that there isn't a .htaccess in another folder that's changing the URL.