.htaccess help

[Austoon]

Im trying to make a certain part of my site user/password protected but its not working for me.
I can get it all set up so it opens up saying for me to put the name and password in BUT it keeps telling me that they arn't right. I used a online encryption thing to do the password for me and i put what it told me to in the .htpasswd file but it wont work.
Any idea's why, and any help for me to get this to work would be great.
Thanks

[Spookster]

Have you tried it first without encrypting the password? If it works without encrypting then the problem is with the encryption. If so then see this thread.

http://www.codingforum.net/showthrea...threadid=32740

If not then you should post what you have in your .htaccess file

[Austoon]

I just tried it with out encrypting it and it still didn't work.
this is what i have in the .htaccess file

AuthUserFile /slsnsns/staff/.htpasswd
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Password_Required"

require valid-user

[Spookster]

Originally posted by Austoon
I just tried it with out encrypting it and it still didn't work.
this is what i have in the .htaccess file

AuthUserFile /slsnsns/staff/.htpasswd
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Password_Required"

require valid-user

I'm not sure if the order matters but it should be in this order

AuthType Basic
AuthName "Password_Required"
AuthUserFile /slsnsns/staff/.htpasswd
require valid-user

other than that make sure that is the correct path to your .htpasswd file and that the .htpasswd file does contain a usernameassword line in it like so:

usernameassword