Comments on: Password Protect an Apache Website using .htaccess

By: lt

lt — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:03:46 +0000

Does anyone know how to get this to work on Vista? I had everything working fine on my XP machine but now I can’t get the password protection to work. All my pages/files are not password protected. When running the htpasswd from the command line I get the Vista security window popup (after I changed the Priviledge Level to Admin) but it doesn’t modify or create the password file.

By: MrGroove

MrGroove — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:19:44 +0000

Welcome to the site Prasanna,

I’ll do some digging but off-hand, I don’t have a solution for capturing the password being passed to Apache for Authentication. I’ll keep an eye out. Perhaps someone in the community can assist. Feel free to also post the question in the Forum

By: prasanna

prasanna — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:46:52 +0000

Mr Groove . Is it possible to catch a plain password before it passed to .htpasswd file for verification. If so, Please letme know about it. I need in my project

Thanq for posting a good and valid information

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:54:30 +0000

Great read. I was looking for the info on creating the crypto for Apache for Windows.

By: AskApache

AskApache — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:39:43 +0000

Hey MrGroove groovy post! You article is very well organized and I don’t see how anyone could get confused you did such a great job explaining things.. Since you are running WordPress check out the AskApache Password Protect plugin which automatically adds password support to the /wp-admin/ directory on wordpress…. now I have to add Windows support!

@AskApache