Regarding htpasswd
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 1:54 am
After reading some of the posts here on security etc I dedided to start experimenting with htpasswd and .htaccess files. No problem in getting it to run on my (local) development machine. However when I try to get things going on my live server, none of the passwords (I just created so I'm pretty sure they're correct) are accepted.
Two questions:
- could my connection setup (cable internet > router/DHCP server > WiFi base station > server) have something to do with it ?
- I just FTP'd my test environment (including password and group files) to my live environment. The passwords are encrypted using the default htpasswd settings (so no plain text or extra encryption). Could it be that password checking is failing because the passwords were encrypted on a different system ?
Oh and one last (small) thing - does anyone know if there's an easier way to create a .htaccess file on a Windows system (my test environment) than having to copy con it? Explorer and most editors I've used just don't accept a filename starting with a period...
TIA
Two questions:
- could my connection setup (cable internet > router/DHCP server > WiFi base station > server) have something to do with it ?
- I just FTP'd my test environment (including password and group files) to my live environment. The passwords are encrypted using the default htpasswd settings (so no plain text or extra encryption). Could it be that password checking is failing because the passwords were encrypted on a different system ?
Oh and one last (small) thing - does anyone know if there's an easier way to create a .htaccess file on a Windows system (my test environment) than having to copy con it? Explorer and most editors I've used just don't accept a filename starting with a period...
TIA