htacess now not working

Hi, since the change me .htaccess isn't working. I had trouble setting it up in the first place! but was helped on here. Can anyone advise on what i need to change or do?
Thanks

[aos101]

Do you mean not working as in not doing anything at all, or not working as in causing an error or not doing what you expect? What does the .htaccess file contain?

Sorry should have gave more detail. Heres the thread from before, i used it to provide username and password access. http://www.freedom2support.net/forum...ead.php?t=7388 no errors are shown.

Thanks

[aos101]

So what happens when you try to visit the page? Does it ask for a username/password and not accept it?

Doesn't ask for anything, lets you straight on to the page.
Thanks

[aos101]

Hmm, that shouldn't happen. When you FTP into your webspace, is the .htaccess file in the folder you want password protected, and is the .htpasswd file in the public_html folder?

Edit: Also, if you put your website address in the DNS Lookup box here what IP address does it give back as the answer?

http://www.dnsstuff.com/

The .htaccess is the the correct folder, but i dont have a public_html folder. I have web and logfiles, and inside web is a folder called content where my site is.

194.154.164.86 [TTL=600]

Thanks

[aos101]

OK, it looks like your website was moved to a Windows hosting server during the migration, which means the .htaccess password protection won't work any more. F2S are moving all websites that have Frontpage extensions enabled to Windows servers because they don't want to run Frontpage extensions on the Linux servers any more.

I don't have much experience with IIS so I'm not sure how you can password protect a folder on it, but some googling suggests you might be able to do it with a web.config file. Maybe someone else here knows how you can do that?

Ok, thanks for your help. I don't suppose F2S would move it back to the Linux server if I asked them? I didn't think I had frontpage extensions enabled because I don't use them.
Thanks

[elrandom3]

The only way I can think of password-protecting a directory a-la .htaccess style is to go into the IIS configuration manager and twiddling things there. As no user has access to that, then that's out of the question.

The other alternative may be to create a "wrapper". Have an ASP file (for example) check credentials, and then include the needed files from a secret directory if the user is golden.

Like you say, another option might be to jump back to Linux. Whether you take this option depends on whether you use any Windows-specific things in your website.

[NewsreadeR]

Hi

Use this IISPassword

http://www.troxo.com/products/iispassword/

Its free afaik, we use it

[elrandom3]

I don't think a regular hosting user would be able to install this on their site. It's an ISAPI filter, which requires some sort of access to the IIS console.

I'm certainly going to pop this on my windows dedi though... cheers for the link

[grumbert]

Originally Posted by aos101

OK, it looks like your website was moved to a Windows hosting server during the migration, which means the .htaccess password protection won't work any more. F2S are moving all websites that have Frontpage extensions enabled to Windows servers because they don't want to run Frontpage extensions on the Linux servers any more.

Frontpage Extensions for Unix have been end of lifed since Summer 2006:
http://www.rtr.com/fpsupport/ . that may explain why they've been moved.

[NewsreadeR]

Originally Posted by elrandom3

I don't think a regular hosting user would be able to install this on their site. It's an ISAPI filter, which requires some sort of access to the IIS console.

I'm certainly going to pop this on my windows dedi though... cheers for the link

Doh, forgot we have a dedi