.htaccess password protection not working with encrypted password

Asked Feb 03 '14 at 19:22

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I want to make my admin folder protected with htaccess file.Here is my htaccess file

AuthType Basic 
AuthName "Title for Protected Site"
AuthUserFile C:/WAMP/www/mysite/admin/.htpasswd
Require valid-user

I made htpasswd file and had password encrypted. When i try to access the folder it doesn't accept my password and opens another login, but when i set password to be admin, without encryption, it works. Does anybody have idea why this is happening? And if it is important, here is my apache error log

AH01617: user admin1: authentication failure for "/mysite/admin/": Password Mismatch

edited Dec 18 '18 at 00:52

Scott Arciszewski

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asked Feb 03 '14 at 19:22

user3173457

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Sidenote: You shouldn't be encrypting, you should be hashing. Unless that's what you meant by "encryption". Those are `two different animals` altogether. – Funk Forty Niner Feb 03 '14 at 19:24
I used this site http://www.kxs.net/support/htaccess_pw.html is it ok or not? Thanks – user3173457 Feb 03 '14 at 19:25
Problem solved then? As for the link you've shown above, that is a hashed password method and most probably uses Apache's `crypt` function to hash it. – Funk Forty Niner Feb 03 '14 at 19:27
Yeah, solved it, thanks again. – user3173457 Feb 03 '14 at 19:29

.htaccess password protection not working with encrypted password

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