[users@httpd] .htaccess problem

[Odhiambo Washington <wa...@wananchi.com>]

I must say I have read all the doco about this, and if it's something I
could easily understand, then in this case I am simply defeated!


I am setting up authentication for $HOME/public_html/

Here is how I have setup the requirements:



228$ ls -al .ht* 
-rwxr-xr-x 1 wash wheel 305 24 Jun 19:14 .htaccess
-rw-r----- 1 wash wheel 96 24 Jun 19:21 .htpasswd

229$ cat .htaccess
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Pls authenticate to get access.."
AuthUserFile /home/wash/public_html/htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
Satisfy any
Order allow,deny
Allow from .wananchi.com
Deny from all
ErrorDocument 404 $HOME/bin/apache_error/error401.html
<LIMIT GET POST>
Require valid-user
</LIMIT>


When I access http://ns2.wananchi.com/~wash/ I am correctly
prompted for username and password, but even though I am
giving the correct username/passwd pair, authentication fails!

Why is this??? How can I debug it? How can I log what is happening
for diagnostics?

Thank you all for any pointers.

-Wash

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