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From: Martin Leweling (lewelinuni-muenster.de)
Date: Fri Jul 27 2001 - 09:45:45 CDT

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    Hi,

    On Friday 27 July 2001 16:35, telco soltn wrote:
    > Hello List,
    >
    > I tried to secure my cgi-bin directory with .htaccess
    > but got internal server errors when tried to access it.
    >
    > set apache to AllowOveride All on the cgi-bin directory
    > although I had no problems when setting .htaccess with ~user
    > directories.
    >
    > I'm on a SuSE 7.1 running 2.4.7 kernel
    > with httpd ver Apache/1.3.19 (SuSE/Linux)
    >
    > Is there any other way to work around this or another means of securing
    > my CGI-BIN with password security when accessing it with a web browser?
    > thanks.

    Before diving into htaccess, I would recommend this for reading:
    http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?focus=sun&content=/focus/sun/articles/htaccess.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?focus=sun&content=/focus/sun/articles/htaccess2.html

    Regards,
      Martin 

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