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

There's a small chance you're seeing password protection from a parent folder, not the folder you expect.

If your /etc/apache2/sites-enabled folder has only one file in it, check to see if it has a section for your sites folder, something like:

   AllowOverride All
 

otherwise, if it has a file for your site name, like:

/etc/apache/sites-enabled/YOUR_SITE_NAME_HERE.conf

edit that file instead, and make sure that there's an

AllowOverride All

in there. That's the important part! If you want to only allow the minimum, specify:

AllowOverride AuthConfig

instead.