dear unix,

need ur help, i have installed apache n apache is working... but i cant use htpasswd , the error said command not found. for web authentucation...

thanks for any help

Few things that you need to check.

1)Check if Apache is really running.
"ps -ef | grep 'apache'"

2)Check if the executable for htpasswd exists on the system
"whereis htpasswd"
htpasswd is generally found in /usr/bin/htpasswd.

3)If you are not a root user, check if you have proper permissions.Generally the permissions are 755.

Hope this helps!
nua7

thanks for ur help
1. ps -ef|grep apache
root 3420 1 0 Mar11 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
daemon 3421 3420 0 Mar11 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
daemon 3422 3420 0 Mar11 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
daemon 3423 3420 0 Mar11 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
daemon 3424 3420 0 Mar11 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
daemon 3425 3420 0 Mar11 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/apache2/bin/httpd -k start
root 3526 3370 0 00:01 pts/1 00:00:00 grep apache

2.whereis htpasswd
htpasswd:
i dont see file at usr/bin/

3. i m a root user

plz help

# ls -l /usr/local/apache2/bin/htpasswd*
# PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/apache2/bin export PATH
# which htpasswd

As it's apache2, you may find that you want "htpasswd2" instead of "htpasswd".

Cheers,
ZB

thanks all,
now i got it