Apache htpasswd ignored DomJudge

Question

I am trying to set up DomJudge with Apache on an Ubuntu server and have the following config included in my httpd.conf

# Require authentication to jury webinterface
<Directory /home/domjudge/domjudge/domserver/www/jury>
Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks 
AuthType Basic
AuthName "DOMjudge Jury Interface Login"
Require valid-user
AuthUserFile /home/domjudge/domjudge/domserver/etc/htpasswd-jury
AllowOverride None 

# Optionally restrict access to just the jury computers:
allow from all
# allow from 192.168.1.0/24

And the htpasswd file is as follows:

-rw-r--r-- 1 domjudge www-data   46 2012-04-18 17:14 htpasswd-jury

And contains

domjudge_jury:OS7*SNIP*T20
Pezmc:Password

I restart Apache, when I go to that address I am prompted with a login this server requires a username and a password...the server says DOMjudge Jury Interface Login but even if I enter the passwords as above the prompt simply comes up again.

What is going on? Have I missed something?

Thanks for your time,

You didn't specify how you created or obtained that htpasswd-jury file. — Tim, Apr 18 '12 at 15:45
Might want to set the proper permissions on the passwd file as well, `chmod 0644 htpasswd-jury`. — Tim, Apr 18 '12 at 15:49
@Tim I created that file myself conforming to the .htpasswd spec — Pez Cuckow, Apr 18 '12 at 15:49

user9517 · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-18T16:44:36.257

It looks like you don't have encrypted passwords in your htpasswd-jury file. Just to check things out make a copy of your /home/domjudge/domjudge/domserver/etc/htpasswd-jury file then

htpasswd -c /home/domjudge/domjudge/domserver/etc/htpasswd-jury domjudge_jury

answer the prompts etc. Now try and log in.

From the apache htpasswd documentation

-p
    Use plaintext passwords. Though htpasswd will support creation on all 
platforms, the httpd daemon will only accept plain text passwords on Windows, 
Netware and TPF.

As you appear to be on a Unix like system it appears you'll have to use encrypted passwords.

<3 completely forgot you had to encrypt them... – Pez Cuckow Apr 18 '12 at 17:09 — Pez Cuckow, Apr 18 '12 at 17:09

Apache htpasswd ignored DomJudge

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