Help - Password protecting directories

[winds]

Hey guys,
I am following the instructions here: http://www.nfoservers.com/forums/viewto ... =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!

[Edge100x]

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

[winds]

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.

[winds]

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?

[Edge100x]

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

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

LOGIN_NAME is anything I want it to be, correct? I can make one up?

Yes.

Then HASHED_PASSWORD, I made a new password, put it in the hash generator, then copy pasted the Hashed password.

That is correct, yes.

[winds]

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

[Edge100x]

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

[winds]

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

[Edge100x]

You can just paste them directly here, in

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 blocks :). Easier, faster, and more permanent than doing an attachment or uploading them somewhere else.

[winds]

Ahhh right, haha, my bad!

htaccess

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# Access file
order allow,deny
allow from all
require valid-user
Authname "DirectoryName"
Authtype Basic
AuthUserFile /usr/www/website/admin/.htpasswd

htpasswd

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admin:ghfN47dN7cEUo

[Edge100x]

Hmm, that does appear to be correct.

[winds]

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.

[Edge100x]

Yes, that's correct.

[winds]

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

[Edge100x]

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.