How to use a RELATIVE path with AuthUserFile in htaccess?

Question

I have a .htaccess that uses basic authentication. It seems the path to the .htpasswd file isn\'t relative to the htaccess file, but instead to the server config.

So eve

Answer 1

you may put your Auth settings into a Environment. Like:

SetEnvIf HTTP_HOST testsite.local APPLICATION_ENV=development

  Allow from all
  AuthType Basic
  AuthName "My Testseite - Login" 
  AuthUserFile /Users/tho/htdocs/wgh_staging/.htpasswd
  Require user username

The Auth is working, but I couldn't get my environment really running.