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

Also, make sure your password file is ANSI-encoded.

Answer 2

I spent about 2 hours to resolve the same issue. But problem was in nginx. I have nginx as front web server and there was a line for proxy configuration:

proxy_set_header Authorization "";

It overrides Authorization field and apache don't receive login and password typed in.

I just commented out this line and it worked.

Answer 3

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