I configured a vhost with http authentication.
ServerAdmin info@example.com ServerName www.example.com DocumentRoot /home/webmaster/www.example.com/
<Directory "/home/webmaster/www.example.com/">
Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
DirectoryIndex index.html, index.php
AuthType Basic
AuthName "www.example.com"
AuthUserFile "/home/webmaster/.htpasswd"
Require valid-user
</Directory>
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/www.example.com-access.log combined
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/www.example.com-error.log
/home/webmaster/.htpasswd file was created using htpasswd command:
htpasswd -c /home/webmaster/.htpasswd john
but Apache doesn't prompt for credentials, so users can browse the website without restrictions. No error in Apache error.log file and no errors in www.example.com-error.log file.
any suggestions? many thanks
Piero