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more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question htaccess internal server error 500 x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up internal server error htaccess htaccess gives 500 - Internal Server Error up vote 1 down vote favorite 1 I am protecting a html file with htaccess and htpasswd. When I try accessing it, after putting both user and password, instead of loading the "index.html" file I get a "500 - Internal Server Error" AuthName "Restricted Area" AuthType Basic AuthUserFile home/folder/index.html/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile /dev/null require valid-user Any suggestions? Maybe
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something with the hosting service? .htaccess internal-server-error .htpasswd share|improve this question asked Mar 24 '13 at 11:52 no0ne 81661733 Suggestion: find your error log file and learn how to use it :) –Ben Millwood Mar 24 '13 at 11:54 Is your AuthUserFile correct? I'd think it should be something like AuthUserFile home/folder/.htpasswd –blamonet Mar 24 '13 at 11:54 Thanks blamonet, but it didn't help. I'm looking into Mr. Millwoods suggestion. –no0ne Mar 24 '13 at 12:00 related: stackoverflow.com/questions/19060586/… –Jay Apr 10 '14 at 22:22 add a comment| 2 Answers 2 active oldest votes up vote 4 down vote First of all, consult the error-log (usually located in /var/log/apache2/error.log) to see the exact cause of the error. If you do not have access to it, check the following: is this technique supported by the server? (ask your provider or admin) is AuthUserFile correct? It seems to be missing a slash and the directory is unusual. I would have suspected something like AuthUserFile /home/webuser/sitefolder/.htpasswd. change the group-file to AuthGroupFile None instead of pointing apache to read /dev/null. Think of /dev/null as
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is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up basic authentication error 500 up vote 2 down vote favorite I have this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15598097/htaccess-gives-500-internal-server-error .htaccess AuthType Basic AuthName "Protected Area" AuthUserFile /.htpasswds/.htpasswd Require valid-user And a .htpassword test:$apr1$zXAu7nnl$612DeubGZ9jDrDPB1S8VO0 the directory structure is: /.htpasswds/.htpasswd /public_html/.htaccess any attempt to login give me a 500 error. In cpanel the error is not registered in error log. apache basic-authentication share|improve this question asked Nov 14 '13 at 1:04 user2990084 297423 Then you're looking in the wrong log or something is misconfigured. A 500 error must http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19967599/basic-authentication-error-500 create a log entry somewhere. (The error is most likely the leading / in your paths, though. Your htpasswd file is not really in the system's root directory, is it?) –Pekka 웃 Nov 14 '13 at 1:07 a 404 error is registered, but not this 500 error. –user2990084 Nov 14 '13 at 1:08 Strange. Are you sure you are looking in the error log? And not the access log? –Pekka 웃 Nov 14 '13 at 1:08 @Pekka웃, maybe this screenshot can be helpful postimg.org/image/t6l77852b –user2990084 Nov 14 '13 at 1:21 Ah, so you're indeed in a directory of that name with it. Not sure what's going on then, maybe un-hide the directory by naming it htpasswds - and look out for that error log. Apache 2 has per-site error logs –Pekka 웃 Nov 14 '13 at 1:22 add a comment| 4 Answers 4 active oldest votes up vote 0 down vote I don't know exactly what is the problem, but my host provider suggests this: In cpanel Section security Option Web Protect That will generate: AuthType Basic AuthName "Protected" AuthUserFile "/home/abvnfj/.htpasswds/public_html/passwd" require valid-user share|improve this answer answered Nov 14 '13 at 21:50 user2990084 297423 add a comment| up v
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