By collinmoore
Trying to lock down www/html/ using .htaccess on a LAMP 14.04 deployment, and having a tough time. Documentation is all over the place without a clear answer.
Tried updating 000-default.conf Tried updating .htaccess to point to .htpasswd Did lots of restarts of apache2
Nothing worked.
Suggestions?
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In order to enable an .htaccess file, there are a few steps you need to take. In /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf you need to add:
<pre> <Directory “/var/www/html”> AllowOverride All </Directory> </pre>
Then create the file /var/www/html/.htaccess with the contents:
<pre> AuthUserFile /etc/htaccess/.htpasswd AuthName “Authorization Required” AuthType Basic require valid-user </pre>
Then run:
<pre> sudo mkdir /etc/htaccess/ sudo htpasswd -c /etc/htaccess/.htpasswd user1 </pre>
And finally, restart apache:
<pre> sudo service apache2 restart </pre>
Well…
In this tutorial [https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-14-04 ] we learn to create a user and give you root privileges ok. Good. I did it correctly and now looked at the file and is equal to the tutorial.
I’m trying to use this option suggested by @astarr and the answer I have is can not create directory ‘/etc/htaccess/’: Permission denied
Can I get using root?
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