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.htaccess/.htpasswd 500 Internal Server Error up vote 23 down vote favorite 5 I'm working on blocking a folder with .htaccess, which I've never used before, and I'm having some trouble. Here's what I have .htaccess (located in the folder I want blocked): AuthName "Username and password required" AuthUserFile /.htpasswd Require valid-user AuthType Basic .htpasswd (located at root, password is encrypted in actual file): .htaccess password generator tim:blah I'm getting 500 Internal Server errors with this and I can't figure out why. apache .htaccess share|improve this question asked Sep 27 '13 at 21:46 Tim Aych 3752627 2 To you what is /.htpasswd, a file inside /home/youraccout/public_html or actually located on the main directory of the file system /? –Prix Sep 27 '13 at 21:51 What does your apache error logs say? –Jon Lin Sep 27 '13 at 21:52 I can't access error logs through my host =( and my .htpasswd file is in the uppermost folder I can access, it's not in my pubic_html folder –Tim Aych Sep 27 '13 at 22:04 add a comment| 4 Answers 4 active oldest votes up vote 53 down vote accepted Most likely problem is this line: AuthUserFile /.htpasswd This line should provide full filesystem path to the password file e.g. AuthUserFile /var/www/.htpasswd To discover your filesystem path, you can create a PHP document containing echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; share|improve this answer edited Nov 12 '15 at 15:14 Chuck Le Butt 20.2k30114181 answered Sep 27 '13 at 21:54 anubhava 384k32160232 .htpasswd is in
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Badges Ask Question 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 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19060586/htaccess-htpasswd-500-internal-server-error a minute: Sign up 500 Error with .htaccess password protection up vote 0 down vote favorite I am running latest ubuntu with apache. I have very simple html directory I want to protect using .htaccess. I am trying to do it with: AuthName "Restricted Area" AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /var/www/dev/docs/.htpasswd Require valid-user On my .htpasswd file I have: user:pass I get internal http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28539897/500-error-with-htaccess-password-protection server error with this. I've been digging hard but not sure why this is happening. If I add a this:
The browser asks me for login username and password, and after I enter correct details, it shows me this "Internal server error" error. If there https://www.sitepoint.com/community/t/htaccess-internal-server-error-while-trying-to-password-protect-a-directory/6980 was some issue with .htaccess or .htpasswd files, then popup box for entering username and password should not get visible. I wonder what might be the issue on my new server. authtype basic authuserfile /var/www/vhosts/abc.com/httpdocs/admin/.htpasswd authname "Secure Area" require user admin Both .htaccess and .htpasswd files are in the same folder. Moreover if I include this line in .htaccess internal server file, it shows internal server error WITHOUT asking me any username or password. authgroupfile /dev/null Please suggest. ScallioXTX 2011-01-18 10:06:48 UTC #2 I also got this error a while back and the problem for me was that the 401 file Apache was linked to didn't exist. To test this create an empty file called 401.html in your web root and internal server error put ErrorDocument 401 /401.html at the top of your .htaccess If that solves the problem you can amend 401.html with the message you'd like people to see if they don't correctly log in. Natcoweb_com 2011-01-18 12:20:11 UTC #3 johnvicky said: Hi, While trying to password protect a directory with .htaccess, I am receiving "Internal server error". The browser asks me for login username and password, and after I enter correct details, it shows me this "Internal server error" error. If there was some issue with .htaccess or .htpasswd files, then popup box for entering username and password should not get visible. I wonder what might be the issue on my new server. ` authtype basicauthuserfile /var/www/vhosts/abc.com/httpdocs/admin/.htpasswdauthname "Secure Area"require user admin ` Both .htaccess and .htpasswd files are in the same folder. Moreover if I include this line in .htaccess file, it shows internal server error WITHOUT asking me any username or password.
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Please suggest. For errors check the error.log of your website. dklynn 2011-01-19 02:37:24 UTC #4 jv, I'd take a close examination of http://www.euronet