After an embarassing amount of time spent, I am appealing to the list for help. I have a minimal install of SuSE with Apache/mySQL/PHP4 and some libs set-up. This all works fine. I tried to use .htaccess to protect a directory, and I'm pretty sure I did everything right- I found several web tutorials, and they are all similar and fairly straightforward. I read everything at apache.org and even some Mosiac docs. The directory challenges me, my little "message" shows in the box and changes when I change it. I edit the files and do an apachectl stop/start to toggle the server. I get the same error after a third failed attempt: "Authorization Required -This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser doesn't understand how to supply the credentials required." I've fiddled pretty hard with both .htaccess and .htpasswd. I've changed those two files ownerships from root to wwwrun to nobody to root again. I thought I set the Apache logs to "debug" but they don't seem to be recording too much. What kind of problem might I be up against? Thanks!