Yes, root access is required.

> Using whereis apache it shows the /usr/local/apache
That's apache itself ;)

Try
Does that give you any direcory within the perl root? If so put it there.
If not create a directory called Apache within the perl includes search path and put it there.

> I've tried both but I got internal error, hmn...
What's in error.log?

I see the Apache dir in /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/Apache then I use wget www.mysite.com/vBAuth.pm.

But then when I uploaded the .htaccess to the folder I want to protect, I got an error:

my apache version is 1.3.29 and I did change database configuration in vBAuth.pm.

So once again:
What error-messages do appear in error.log (don't know the path on your system - might be /var/log/httpd/error.log or smth. like that)?

The reason I didn't post error.log because I didn know where is that file :(, and now knowing and seeing the location /var/log/httpd but it's empty in that folder. Should I give up? It's such a great hack for many features in my board.

Hmm ... must be somewhere ;)

The location of the error logs is defined in httpd.conf, but where your httpd.conf resides ... don't know, maybe /etc/apache/httpd.conf

If not try
find / -name httpd.conf
to lookup where httpd.conf is

Or directly search for error.log
find / -name error.log

OK...if I am running Apache locally, where does this need to go to work?

You must put vBAuth.pm in your Perl Apache-Modules directory.

Heh, I'll have to look into that more, not sure that even exists yet. :)

KirbyDE, do you have any suggestions or ideas on alternative ways to achieve basic authentication against the vB user table. I don't think the module way is going to work out for us...but it is a cool hack none the less. :)

is there any way to make this hack IIS compatible, or is there a similar IIS compatible hack?? .htaccess is useless on IIS.