[cgiwrap-users] CGI and .htaccess precedence

[gwilson <gw...@pl...>]

Hi all!

I am using CGI wrap along with rewrite rules to basically force all .php 
files to be
executed through cgiwrap - this works very well.

I havce noticed off behaviour though.  If I create a .htaccess and 
.htpasswd in a
directory and have an index.html file in there too - when I browse to 
it, I get prompted
for the username and password as you would expect.

But if I replace the index.html with an index.php - somehow CGI wrap takes
precedence and the contents of the file is displayed instead of being
asked for a username and password.

Can anyone explain why this happens and what needs to be done to get Apache
to utilise .htaccess BEFORE anything else?

Many thanks

GW