.htaccess Error : Invalid command 'AuthGroupFile'

Question

before this i was working on windows and my project was working proper. recently i moved to ubuntu and i am trying setup project on LAMP.

i have created host for this (windows i was running directly through localhost) and when i am running it getting 500 Internal server Error.

when i looked in my log file i got Invalid command 'AuthGroupFile', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration.

.htaccess File

  #php_value zend.ze1_compatibility_mode off
  AuthName "Restricted Area" 
  AuthType Basic 
  AuthUserFile /opt/lampp/htdocs/uniplex_mobile/.htpasswd 
  AuthGroupFile /dev/null 

  <Files manageurls.html>
  require valid-user
  </Files>
  <Files addurl.html>
  require valid-user
  </Files>
  <Files editurl.html>
  require valid-user
  </Files>

  AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html

my project is on smarty framework.

can anyone help to solve this?

Thanks in advance

Duplicate of http://askubuntu.com/questions/522519/htaccess-error-invalid-command-authgroupfile — Jérôme, Sep 20 '16 at 12:58

nguaman · Answer 1 · 2020-01-11T22:55:46.390

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You can try this.

a2enmod authz_groupfile

edited Jan 11 '20 at 22:55

answered May 20 '15 at 00:44

nguaman

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 10 '14 at 20:00

Assuming you're using apache 2.2, this means you're missing the mod_authz_groupfile module.

You need to look in your server config and look for the line that contains:

LoadModule authz_groupfile_module modules/mod_authz_groupfile.so

or something similar and make sure it's commented out.

Otherwise, just leave out the AuthGroupFile directive, it doesn't look like you're using it anyways.

.htaccess Error : Invalid command 'AuthGroupFile'

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