upload to isp problem

pSouper · Post by **pSouper** » Thu 8. Apr 2004, 15:45

hi guys,
this is my first ever upload to an isp and chose to loose my ftp virginity with phpwcms and it was good baby

well it could have been better but that's not the fault of anyone here.

I am having an issue that may be to do with .htaccess or .htpasswd

(site is fine on my local server) i have uploaded(ftp) to my ISP server but when I go to the site I gt a login window popup and no user/login that i know of works, if cacelled i get an 'Authorization failure page appear'

does any one know anyting about such things?
all i know is that my site will not work until i do some thing with these but have abosutely no idea what, which is why i don't even know the question i should be asking but will answer any q's you can ask in order to work this out.

ps what do these files do?

Paradroid · Post by **Paradroid** » Thu 8. Apr 2004, 15:46

Hi pSouper,

what are the problems you are having ? You can do a LOT of things with .htaccess. If you have a .htpasswd then your Webspace may be password protected. To run a site you don't need a .htaccess or .htpasswd, but if you have them on you site, what's inside ?

Or do you have problems using a ftp-client ?

pSouper · Post by **pSouper** » Thu 8. Apr 2004, 15:48

only phpwcms is inside
I havn't configured any of the conf.inc.php file but was expecting to see my nice and shiney new index.html first.

but nada.

the site is http://www.jayenne.com

so I don't need those files at all with phpwcms? or current mods?
why would they be in the download?

pSouper · Post by **pSouper** » Thu 8. Apr 2004, 15:51

Of course - as soon as I ask a question the problem goes away

i deleted those files form my server and PING it all is good.

I'd still like to know if these file were meant to do something that I'm not understanding. (by this i don't meant to be told about all the things i don't understand

the list is endless)

Paradroid · Post by **Paradroid** » Thu 8. Apr 2004, 16:01

These files have been on your webspace or did you upload them ?

You need a .htaccess file for example to do a rewrite of the URL to make them "search engine friendly". You should look for "rewrite" or "rewrite mod" in the forum.

As I said, a .htpasswd file is used to create a webserver-based access-control. You don't need this to run phpwcms.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/programs/htpasswd.html

pSouper · Post by **pSouper** » Thu 8. Apr 2004, 16:04

thanks P.