Can Not get Passwords to work, the following is the info in the access file and the error is from error log. Does not seem to translate the Password Path right. SYSTEM: Apache HTTP 2.0.35-win32-x86 server Running on Win98SE with 1.4 P4 256 megs Mem. Access file: AuthType Basic AuthName "By Invitation Only" AuthUserFile H:/apache~1/apache2/passwd/password.ht Require valid-user ERROR: Fri Apr 12 06:11:03 2002] [error] [client 192.168.0.10] (22661)The specified path is invalid. : Could not open password file: H:/Apache Group/he2/passwd/password.ht, referer: http://ronlane/index.html
It looks like you may have some stray characters in your .htaccess file. Please make sure that your AuthUserFile line does not have any characters or white space after the filename.
Well I don't know if whitespace is the problem for this guy, but why the heck wouldn't apache want to strip whitespace from the end of a filename read from the access file? I can't think of a single iota of value that this "feature" adds. It certainly creates confusing behavior if this is the problem.
Patched this morning; this fix will be included in the next release of Apache 2.0.36. Thanks for the report and the clues from you detailed log quotes!