htpasswd problem

[MonkeyBoy]

Hello all,

I wonder if you could help me out please

I am having a slight problem. I have re-read the documentation and carried out countless google searches with no success.

I've installed oScommerce locally on my winXP pro PC. I have no problem with the installtion at all. mySQL database etc all works fine.

However, I am having problems trying to passwod protect my admin directory.

What i've done so far:
I put the .htaccess file inside the admin directory I want to protect with the following:

AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /home/user/passwords/.htpasswd
Authname Login
require valid-user

(Its not very clear if your doing this on your own web server locally.)

The next step. I do in command promt:

htpasswd -b -c .htpasswd user pass to create Username: User and Password: Pass

It creates the file, but where do I put this .htpasswd file?

The main problem i'm having now is that when I try to access the Admin directory/page, IT DOES ask me for the username and password, but doesn't accept the username and password I type, so i'm thinking i've put the .htpasswd in the wrong place.. do you know where this file should go if your running Apache locally and not on a real web host?

Also where should the .htaccess file be pointing to? I've tried many variations, with no luck.

Thanks!

[jpf]

Let me guess - your running IIS!!!!

Simple IIS does not use APACHE files.
.htpasswd/.htacess etc is an APACHE standard. Use one of the ADMIN Levels w/password to protect your admin - or uninstall IIS and load APACHE.

Good Luck