Re: Why is this not working

This works for me... $update = exec ("/usr/local/apache/bin/htpasswd -b ./.htpasswd $username $password"); Just make sure that the user that Apache runs under has the appropriate permissions to the .htpasswd file. Tyrone "YoBro" <nospam@brochures.co.nz> wrote in message news:<9e1fcd$pir$1@toye.p.sourceforge.net>... > After much investigation through many newsgroups and websites, I found out > that this is the way you can execute a unix apache command to add a user to > the htpasswd list with PHP. > > Problem is, it doesn't add any information to the htpasswd file. > Note: The example below is... > domain = my user name > abc = user name to add to htpasswd list > pass = password to add to htpasswd list > > <?php > passthru ("htpasswd -b /users/domain/.htpasswd abc pass"); > ?> > > Please Help if you can. > > Cheers, > YoBro > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >