On my local system i tried to get password protecting a directory with .htaccess running on Mamp 3.0.7.2 . The Apache version Mamp uses is Apache/2.2.29 (Unix). The httpd.conf file
/applications/mamp/conf/apache/httpd.conf
contains the following active line:
LoadModule authn_file_module modules/mod_authn_file.so
My testproject in
/applications/mamp/htdocs/sandbox/testproject/admin/.htaccess
contains following lines:
AuthBasic Basic
AuthName "Admin Area"
AuthUserFile /applications/mamp/htdocs/sandbox/.htpasswd
require valid-user
the .htpasswd file was created one level beneath in the sandbox folder for testing purpose only with:
htpasswd -c .htpasswd adminuser
with pwd .htpasswd within the sandbox folder i've extracted the exact path to prevent any typos which lead to
/applications/mamp/htdocs/sandbox/.htpasswd
but when i try to access the index.php file in the admin folder i get the following in the browser:
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, you@example.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
and the php_error.log outputs the following on every try:
[Mon Dec 29 11:23:30 2014] [alert] [client ::1] /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/sandbox/testproject/admin/.htaccess: Invalid command 'AuthBasic', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration
But how could the AuthBasic command be misspelled or not included, cuz it actually is defined properly as shown above. :/
