htaccess doesn't work - always wrong password

Question

I am trying to password protect a directory, and have two files in the directory which should password protected it:

• .htaccess
• .htpasswd

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Answer 1

I had a similar issue using MAMP and it was because i was creating .htpasswd by hand. Solution was to use htpasswd command in terminal:

htpasswd -bc .htpasswd someuser somepass

this created the .htpasswd file which worked fine with my .htaccess file which looked like so:

AuthType Basic
AuthName "This site is in alpha and requires a password."
AuthUserFile "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/mywebsite/.htpasswd"
require valid-user