Using Apache to authenticate

I want to protect a folder with Apache, so when a user tries to access that folder, a username & password should be asked for. I use the following code in httpd.conf, but it doesn't work.

Code:

# Set up an authenticated directory, in this case foo
<Directory "/srv/www/foo">
	AuthType Basic
	AuthName "Efarmogi"
	AuthUserFile /srv/www/www.foo.gr/user/foo_user/allow.users
	require foo_user
</Directory>

Any ideas?

 

Try this:

Code:

# Set up an authenticated directory, in this case foo
<Directory "/srv/www/foo">

	AuthType Basic
	AuthName "Efarmogi"
	AuthUserFile /srv/www/www.foo.gr/user/foo_user/allow.users
	require valid-user
</Directory>

 

According to this:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/auth.html

I have to install mod_auth, mod_access first, so I have to figure out how to do it in SLES 10.