htaccess login repetition

Hi folks,

I've been putting a htaccess/htpasswd in place on a site

AuthUserFile /www/vhtdocs/**domain**/.htpasswd
AuthName "Jungle Juice"
AuthType Basic

<Limit GET POST>
require valid-user
</Limit>

and everything looks ok, but for some reason it asks for the username/password 3-4-5 times before proceeding.

(To set up the password I type:

$cd **domain**

$htpasswd -c .htpasswd <I>username</I>

then type the password twice)

Sometimes it doesn't grant access at all. Does anyone know why and what I'm doing wrong?

Many thanks - Rock on.

Where is your .htaccess? What's the protected directory (in URL)?

How does the hyperlink on your static html look like? http://www.domain.com/private or http://www.domain.com/private/ ? Make sure you are using http://www.domain.com/private/

Is the Location /private a symlink on your file system? Or is it a Alias like:

Alias /private /usr/local/path/to/private

>> it asks for the username/password 3-4-5 times before proceeding

Can you be more specific? proceeding means prompting for login? Or asking for username/password again and again without showing any incorrect password?

Thanks for replying,

my .htaccess is in the diretory that I'm trying to protect.
The problem is that it keeps asking for username/password again and again without showing any incorrect password - every time I load a page within that directory and sometimes several times for each load.

I think the location is an alias
ie. the address would be
http://www.domain.com/private
and
/home/httpd/vhtdocs/domain/private on the server.

Many thanks.

1) Change Alias /private /home/httpd/vhtdocs/domain/private to:

Alias /private/ /home/httpd/vhtdocs/domain/private/

2) Change the hyperlink on your static html login page like so:

<a href="/private/">Login here</a>