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  • x00 January 23

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Editing .htaccess - Password Protection

fabifabi
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Hey! I want to create a Vanilla forum which is only available for a small group of people. My plan is, that others shouldn't be able to see the forum at all. So I tried to modify the existing .htaccess with the following code:

AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /html/forum/.passwd
AuthName "Protected"

order deny,allow
allow from all
require valid-user

In addition I created the .passwd file with:

user:encryptedpassword

When I now want to access the forum the correct form appears, but when I want to log in there's error 500.

It was the first time I tried to modify the .htaccess, I've never done that before. Is there a problem with Vanilla or the existing part of the .htaccess with my additions? Or it's just my fault cause of mistakes in the code above?

Hope you can help me!

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  • x00x00
    Posts: 1,548 Accepted Answer 1 like

    This is not necessary. .htaccess is fairly unforgiving, so if you don't get the rules 100% right it can error.

    Check out the private community plugin.

    grep is your friend.

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