.htpasswd

I've scoured StackOverflow for an answer to this and seen many questions come close, but nothing is working for me yet. I'd like to have my .htaccess apply different rules based on the domain calling it. Basically, if subdomain.example.com is hit, redirect to google.com. If localhost is hit, redirect to yahoo.com. If www.example.com (or example.com) is hit, redirect to bing.com. I'll be adding in actual rewrite rules (setting environment variables and htpasswd protection) later, but first I need to get the "if then" part working. My (non-working) code is below. Any help is greatly appreciated.

I am trying to password protect a directory, and have two files in the directory which should password protected it: .htaccess .htpasswd HTACCESS: ###Contents of .htaccess: AuthUserFile /var/www/html/path/to/my/directory/.htpasswd AuthName "Protected Files" AuthType Basic Require user admin HTPASSWD: ###Contents of .htpasswd admin:oxRHPuqwKiANY The password is also admin, but no matter what password I try, it is always wrong. It immediately asks for the password again! What is wrong with this configuration? This problem is almost always because apache cannot read the .htpasswd file. There are

Is there a programmatic way to build htpasswd files, without depending on OS specific functions (i.e. exec() , passthru() )? Greg Roberts .httpasswd files are just text files with a specific format depending on the hash function specified. If you are using MD5 they look like this: foo:$apr1$y1cXxW5l$3vapv2yyCXaYz8zGoXj241 That's the login, a colon, ,$apr1$, the salt and 1000 times md5 encoded as base64. If you select SHA1 they look like this: foo:{SHA}BW6v589SIg3i3zaEW47RcMZ+I+M= That's the login, a colon, the string {SHA} and the SHA1 hash encoded with base64. If your language has an