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: .htaccess repeatedly asks for username/password I'm trying to add password protection to my personal website using .htpasswd and .htaccess. When I enter the username and password, I get asked again

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I'm trying to add password protection to my personal website using .htpasswd and .htaccess. When I enter the username and password, I get asked again and again. How do I resolve this?



.htpasswd

st:((encrypted pw))


.htaccess

AuthUserFile /.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "Enter Password"
AuthType Basic
require valid-user


Both files are in the root directory. This is the first website I'm building, so I'm no expert.



Edit: I used this tool to create my .htpasswd file.

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@Alves908

AuthUserFile /.htpasswd


Both files are in the root directory.


The AuthUserFile directive takes an absolute filesystem path (or a path that is relative to the server root), not a path relative to the document root - which is what /.htpasswd looks like? It is unlikely that your "root directory" (by which I assume you mean your website's DocumentRoot) is in the root of your server (if it is then you should probably change it).

You'd expect this to be something like:

AuthUserFile /home/user/secure/.htpasswd

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