Password protection on website

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  • graphikboi0

    It just ain't working. Why are the easiest things so hard to do... grrrr.

    I've saved a .htaccess and .htpassword onto my server in a folder called 'users', with these codes -

    AuthName "Restricted Area"
    AuthType Basic
    AuthUserFile /users/.htpasswd
    AuthGroupFile /dev/null
    require valid-user

    and the passwords and encryption password on the password file. But once uploaded to site no box pops up to ask me for a username or password

    I've read that I have to save the htaccess and htpasswd files in ASCII, and not binary format. But my notepad only allows me to save these in ANSI or unicode or utf-8. I'm saving it as ANSI, is this where I'm going wrong.

    Please help.

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