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Old April 30th, 2009, 11:27 PM
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Well google is confusing me. My coworker and I have been following the directions for the htaccess file stuff and can not get it to work. Get an error 500
The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Either the server is overloaded or there was an error in a CGI script.
Need some help on what to do. We followed instructions to the t. We have a limited time to get this done. Please help
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Old May 1st, 2009, 09:25 PM
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re: Password protect certain web files


What are the contents of your htaccess file?
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Old May 1st, 2009, 09:56 PM
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AuthUserFile ./.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "Valid Users Only"
AuthType Basic

require valid-user

then I have this in the htpasswd file
Administrator:gatdjUajvHwDM
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Old June 26th, 2009, 01:09 AM
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Is that enough info Markus? Can you help with this?
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Old July 11th, 2009, 10:08 PM
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I'm sorry - this didn't show up in my subscribed posts.

Rcollins, take a look in your apache error logs - there'll most likely be some useful information in there (nothing jumps out at me, regarding your htaccess)

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