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password protected directory on VPS Ubuntu 14.04``

Posted on October 8, 2014

I just installed LAMP on ubuntu 14.04 and I have problem with password protected directory.

AuthName "Restricted Area" 
AuthType Basic 
AuthUserFile /home/marko/public_html/.htpasswd 
AuthGroupFile /dev/null 
require valid-user

This is my .htaccess file in root of my project.

I enabled and authz_groupfile_module in apache and also apache2-utils is installed.

The problem is when I do drop in my site I can enter my username and password but on every post method I am getting 401 error. For example when I want to log in in my account this is happening, Project is done in php CI fw. Everything is fine when I disable folder protection.

Unauthorized

This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser doesn’t understand how to supply the credentials required.

This is my config file of 000-default.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /home/marko/public_html
        ErrorLog /home/marko/logs/error.log
        CustomLog /home/marko/logs/access.log combined
    <Directory />
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
        #Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
</VirtualHost>
What I can do more to get this to work?


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Hello,

I just recreated .htpasswd with this command: htpasswd -c .htpasswd my-username And I still have a problem, anyother solution?

Thanks

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