can get it work htpasswd

Question

i can get the .htpasswd to work with .htaccess

I have the following lines in htacess

<Files ".htaccess">
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>
AuthUserFile /var/www/example/.htpasswd
AuthName "Restricted Area"
AuthType Basic
Require valid-user  

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /index.php/$1



and htpasswd look as it follows

user:passw
<Files ".htpasswd">
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>

I'm trying to log in but without success apache error.log tells "/": Password Mismatch but I have been checking couple of times everything is okay with it.

Answer 1

password are manipulated using htpasswd utility

see: http://linux.die.net/man/1/htpasswd

Your case can be:

htpasswd -c /var/www/example/.htpasswd user

Answer 2

Try and generate passwords using the site: htpasswd-generator and also put the file outside the web root directory of the site not inside it.