> Now that Apache for Cygwin seems to work more reliably I have started > using it as my web server. However authentication (that was working with > Apache for Windows) broke. I'm wondering if this is an Apache for Cygwin > specific problem. > > I used to have this implemented at the server level in the httpd.conf > file like so: > > # Secure addbug form > <Directory "//sonscentral/users/adefaria/www/Internal/Release/addbug/"> > AuthName "permission to add a bug" > AuthType Basic > AuthUserFile /etc/apache/addbug_users > Require valid-user > </Directory> > > However that fails to work. The user is let in without being prompted > for a username/password. I've also tried using a .htaccess file: > > AuthType Basic > AuthName "permission to add a bug" > AuthUserFile /etc/apache/addbug_users > > Require valid-user > > With the same non-success. I had cranked up the loglevel in the hopes > that something about the failure would be written to the logs but > nothing is. How can I debug/fix this? Does Apache for Cygwin do any > authentication at all? > > Apache 1.3.24; Cygwin 1.5.4
did you used "AuthGroupFile /dev/null" in this scope too? I have no clue for this, because Authentication using the standard mod_auth was working very reliably since decades for me. BTW, why is the <Director> path starting with *two* slashes? Maybe we got the raeson for this behaviour at this point. Stipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------- Wapme Systems AG Vogelsanger Weg 80 40470 Düsseldorf Tel: +49-211-74845-0 Fax: +49-211-74845-299 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.wapme-systems.de ------------------------------------------------------------------- wapme.net - wherever you are -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
