Password Protected Directories Issue

[MikeDVB]

On a new server I just copied over an account that has a few password protected directories and they've quit working.

I deleted the .htaccess and .htpasswd files and recreated them and it's still not letting anybody log in.

I created a brand new account and created a password protected directory and I'm still getting the same issue.

http://www.webhostingboard.net/test/ username is test and password is test - you can verify this.

Any suggestions?

 

[mistwang]

Can you double check that the user that Apache run as can access the password file?

sudo -u nobody cat <path_to_.htpasswd>

 

[MikeDVB]

Excellent - it seems the script we run to fix home directory permissions set it to user.user for .htpasswds when it needed to be user.nobody - modified the script and re-running it now to resolve all of these issues.

Thank you so much.

 

[MikeDVB]

Just in case anybody needs this in the future on a cPanel server:

#!/bin/bash
for user in `/bin/ls /var/cpanel/users`; do
        echo "Fixing permissions for account: ${user}"
        chown -R ${user}.${user} /home/${user}
        chown ${user}.nobody /home/${user}/public_html
        chown -R ${user}.mail /home/${user}/etc
        chown ${user}.nobody /home/${user}/.htpasswds/
done

Add this in fixhomepermissions.sh and then set it to chmod 755 and run "sh fixhomepermissions.sh"