# .htaccess configuration problem

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/htaccess-configuration-problem/89017>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [May 4, 2005, 11:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/htaccess-configuration-problem/89017 "2005-05-04T11:23:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![zarazinia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/df788c/32.png) [@zarazinia](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/zarazinia)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 11:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/htaccess-configuration-problem/89017/1 "2005-05-04T11:23:47Z")

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I’m new to this whole ‘posting to forums’ thingy so you’ll have to excuse my behaviour. If I’m not doing it right, a nudge in the right direction is greatfully appreciated.

I’m hosting my own site on a WinXP machine running Apache and I’m trying to get .htaccess and .htpasswd to work - I can get other .htaccess commands to work, such as ErrorDocument 404 [http://localhost/www/index.html](http://localhost/www/index.html), but when I try to password protect a folder it doesn’t work as it should, the browser produces a pop-up username and password box but when you put the password in it just refreshes the pop-up. Am I missing something in the Apache httpd.conf file?