I'm getting the following error
The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Either the server is overloaded or there was an error in a CGI script.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 500
184.82.228.38
Mon Jan 9 02:48:12 2012
Apache/2.2.21 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.21 OpenSSL/1.0.0c PHP/5.3.8 mod_apreq2-20090110/2.7.1 mod_perl/2.0.5 Perl/v5.10.1
Im running a XAMPP server
here is my htaccess file, i don't understand what the problem is.
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Members Area"
AuthUserFile /opt/lampp/htdocs/.htpasswd
Require valid-user
<FilesMatch "(async-upload\.php|wp-cron\.php|xmlrpc\.php)$">
Satisfy Any
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Deny from none
</FilesMatch>
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /members/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /members/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Best Answer
I got the same error before and the problem is the location path of the .htpasswd. Make sure you have set the correct path for that file.