Having trouble setting up .htaccess

New Member Joined: Jul 04, 2005 Posts: 14

Hello, I have changed the sample.htaccess to .htaccess and changed what was in it to what the "cgi auth setup" told me to change it to. I then put in the correct paths for the .staccess and .htaccess in hte nuke admin panel, I then set an auth admin password for both of my admin accounts. Then when I went I refreshed the site it came back to "error 500." So temporarily I took out the .htaccess so the site would be up. Anybody have any suggestions on what to do to fix this "error 500" problem? All help would be greatly appreciated.

An added update: When I went to the admin auth list this is what came up

Build CGIAuth file: /html/.staccess
^^ is hyperlink to /html/admin.php?op=ABCGIBuild
**However when I click on the link it does nothing.

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

An error 500 means either a syntax error or your host does not allow you to use certain driectives in your .htaccess. It's usually the latter. Try removing

Code:

Options All -Indexes


DirectoryIndex index.php index.htm index.html

Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 11:59 am

where do I remove that line of code? I looked in the index.php and .htaccess but I could not find that.

Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 12:01 pm

It was in the sample.htaccess

Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:28 pm

This is what my .htaccess file looks like now

# -------------------------------------------
# Start of NukeSentinel(tm) admin.php Auth
# -------------------------------------------
<Files .ftaccess>
deny from all
</Files>

<Files .staccess>
deny from all
</Files>

<Files admin.php>
<Limit GET POST PUT>
require valid-user
</Limit>
AuthName "Restricted"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /.staccess
</Files>

# -------------------------------------------
# Start of NukeSentinel(tm) DENY FROM area
# -------------------------------------------

The .staccess file is blank as it was in the beginning, am I doing something wrong?

Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:19 pm

Absolutely. You can't use that .htaccess file with a blank .staccess. Rename those files back to sample.*. See http://www.ravenphpscripts.com/postt2950.html for the correct way to use those files.

Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 7:52 pm

ok, I have done everything that you asked of, I have looked at another persons error, I am getting the "internal error" thing, this is what is in my .htaccess file

Code:

<Files .teleprompter


deny from all


</Files>


<Files admin.php>


<Limit GET POST PUT>


require valid-user


</Limit>


AuthName "Restricted"


AuthType Basic


AuthUserFile /homepages/11/d107438439/htdocs/dev/.teleprompter


</Files>

my salt code is P^

Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 8:05 pm

I tried this

Code:

<Files .ftaccess>


  deny from all


</Files>





<Files .teleprompter>


  deny from all


</Files>





<Files admin.php>


   <Limit GET POST PUT>


      require valid-user


   </Limit>


   AuthName "Restricted"


   AuthType Basic


   AuthUserFile /homepages/11/d107438439/htdocs/dubiousbaby/.teleprompter


</Files>

I didn't get the internel error thing but instead as before when I try to enter with my username and password on the popup it just refreshes itself and erases my previous attempt to login to the admin panel.

Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 10:19 pm

Did you encode your password in the .staccess file?

Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 9:11 am

So I am suppost to put my password into the secret file and the .htaccess file and upload them both to the server?