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Asked: 2026-06-09T19:06:51+00:00

At the moment I’m trying set up authentication on my test server. The following

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At the moment I’m trying set up authentication on my test server.

The following is the list of files in the folder I’m trying to set up authentication for.

sftp://it@192.168.0.157/var/www/secret/.htpasswd
sftp://it@192.168.0.157/var/www/secret/.htaccess
sftp://it@192.168.0.157/var/www/secret/index.html

Here’s what .htaccess contains:

AuthName "Restricted Area"
AuthType Basic 
AuthUserFile /secret/.htpasswd 
AuthGroupFile /dev/null 
<Files test.html>
require valid-user
</Files>

I’m not getting the login pop up. It simply shows the index.html when I go to 192.168.0.157/secret

What am I not doing correctly?

Oh btw, please ignore the fact that I haven’t placed the htpasswd file in a more secure location. I just want to get this to work once and be able to demonstrate it.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You have stated URLs to a FTP server, not to the Apache web server.
    When trying to access webserver, url will be: http://192.168.0.157/secret/index.html

    In .htaccess you have stated that access should be controller only for test.html

    Use this .htaccess for controlling access to all files:

    AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted Area"
AuthUserFile /secret/.htpasswd
Require valid-user
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