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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I looked at the .htaccess documentation and everything I have looks correct to me so this should be working. I wasn’t certain where the files needed to be placed on the server as I said before no one has touched this server in years with respect to its configuration for Apache. Hosts have been added and take away of course but that shouldn’t break anything should it? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">David Thompson <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> smokeping-users [mailto:<a href="mailto:smokeping-users-bounces%2Bdavid.thompson">smokeping-users-bounces+david.thompson</a>=<a href="mailto:vintalk.com@lists.oetiker.ch">vintalk.com@lists.oetiker.ch</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Gregory Sloop<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 20, 2014 11:55 AM<br><b>To:</b> David Thompson<br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch">smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [smokeping-users] Protecting site with .htaccess</span></p>
</div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">This really isn't a smokeping question, and it's been so long since I've done this that I don't recall the details on how Apache handles it.<br>
<br>I'd do some google searches, or ask on a "newbie" apache list.<br>Here's a good place to start: </span><a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/auth.html"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/auth.html</span></a> <br>
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">[I won't try to guess what's wrong - but a close review of your configs etc will probably get you there.]<br><br>Sorry I can't offer more.<br><br>
-Greg</span></p><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="0" style="background:white"><tr><td width="2" style="width:1.2pt;background:blue;padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt"></td><td style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Nope the Apache version I’m running is 2.2.14.<br><br></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">David Thompson <br>
Network Services Support Technician <br>(O) 858.357.8794 <br>(F) 858-225-1882 <br>(E) </span><a href="mailto:dthompson@esi-estech.com"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">dthompson@esi-estech.com</span></a><br>
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<br><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> smokeping-users [mailto:</span><a href="mailto:smokeping-users-bounces%2Bdavid.thompson"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">smokeping-users-bounces+david.thompson</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">=</span><a href="mailto:vintalk.com@lists.oetiker.ch"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">vintalk.com@lists.oetiker.ch</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jan Rockstedt<br>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Re: [smokeping-users] Protecting site with .htaccess<br>
<br></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Did you upgrade apache from 2.2 to 2.4?<br><br>Jan<br><br>Den 2014-08-19 21:35, David Thompson skrev:<br>I’m having some problems trying to password protect my Smokeping instance for some reason and I don’t know why the password protection stopped working some time ago. My .htaccess and .htpasswd files are both located in /usr/share/smokeping/cgi-bin folder. Is this where these files need to be? Do they need to be somewhere else?<br>
<br></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">David Thompson <br>Network Services Support Technician <br>(O) 858.357.8794 <br>(F) 858-225-1882 <br>(E) </span><a href="mailto:dthompson@esi-estech.com"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">dthompson@esi-estech.com</span></a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Nope the Apache version I’m running is 2.2.14.<br><br></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">David Thompson <br>
Network Services Support Technician <br>(O) 858.357.8794 <br>(F) 858-225-1882 <br>(E) </span><a href="mailto:dthompson@esi-estech.com"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">dthompson@esi-estech.com</span></a><br>
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<br><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> smokeping-users [mailto:</span><a href="mailto:smokeping-users-bounces%2Bdavid.thompson"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">smokeping-users-bounces+david.thompson</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">=</span><a href="mailto:vintalk.com@lists.oetiker.ch"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">vintalk.com@lists.oetiker.ch</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jan Rockstedt<br>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Re: [smokeping-users] Protecting site with .htaccess<br>
<br></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Did you upgrade apache from 2.2 to 2.4?<br><br>Jan<br><br>Den 2014-08-19 21:35, David Thompson skrev:<br>I’m having some problems trying to password protect my Smokeping instance for some reason and I don’t know why the password protection stopped working some time ago. My .htaccess and .htpasswd files are both located in /usr/share/smokeping/cgi-bin folder. Is this where these files need to be? Do they need to be somewhere else?<br>
<br></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">David Thompson <br>Network Services Support Technician <br>(O) 858.357.8794 <br>(F) 858-225-1882 <br>(E) </span><a href="mailto:dthompson@esi-estech.com"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">dthompson@esi-estech.com</span></a><br>
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