.htpasswd under IIS - does it work?

I'm trying to password protect a directory on a server that's running IIS.

I've put the following in the .htaccess file in that directory - AuthName "Restricted Area" AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /path/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile /dev/null require valid-user

I've tried a whole bunch of different paths and although it's asking for a user开发者_开发知识库name and password it won't take it. I've tried using the path provided by _SERVER["PATH_TRANSLATED"] but that's no help either.

Is this a problem with my path, or does IIS just not support .htpasswd?

Helicon Ape (http://www.helicontech.com/ape naturally supports .htpasswd file with all these authentication options you’ve mentioned. The software also implements a bunch of other Apache-like features. As regarding authentication, you may also be interesting in these articles: http://helicontech.blogspot.com/search/label/mod_auth

Thank you.

IIS does not support .htpasswd or .htaccess.

Natively IIS does not support the htpasswd.

You can get IISPassword for IIS from here if you really want to use similar files under IIS.