htpasswd command not found?

[ZiaTioN]

Is there an equivilant htpasswd command for Slack? Or is the location simply not in my environment variable $PATH?

I am trying to password protect a web directory on a Slackware 9.1 system running Apache.

[Void Main]

It should have come with your Apache package and installed in /usr/bin. I see it in that directory in that package in the MANIFEST file over at ftp.slackware.com:

ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/s ... slackware/

[ZiaTioN]

Yeah that is what I thought which would mean that it would be in my $PATH by default since /usr/bin is usually always in each users $PATH.

However I found it in "/usr/local/apache/bin" so I just made the following entry to my .bash_profile, "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/apache/bin".

[Void Main]

Then apparently you didn't install the Slackware Apache package. You must have compiled/installed from source.

[ZiaTioN]

Actually I did not compile or install anything. The box is not mine and I do not have root on it. It is a box the belongs to a friend which is hosting my webpage and various other applications, like email and dns resolution.

[Void Main]

Then your friend compiled and installed Apache from source. :) It's not the Apache that comes with Slackware because if it was htpasswd would be in /usr/bin.

[Calum]

and perhaps it's in /usr/local/bin if it was compiled from source? unless some other prefix was passed during configuration? (and that made it sound like i actually know what i'm talking about! oop! did i type that out loud?)

[ZiaTioN]

Yeah I am sure it resides where it is at for a reason. The box has been completely customly (is that even a word) setup for hosting the services that it does for multiple users. I was actually impressed with the way they setup Apache for hosting any number of name based vhosts.

I would just host my site on my systems as I have done in the past but I have outgrown my DSL connection and a free T1 is too hard to pass up.