Dear Apache-Experts! I have a strange problem with a simple task of configuration on our Apache 1.3.26 www-server on an "old potato updated to woody"-Debian. Therefore I would be very gratefull if I could get replies.
The task: Granting access to directories to certain users on a simple user/password basis, using simple authentification and .htaccess-files. This had been working very well for a long time. The problem: After I had installed and uninstalled mySQL-server/client, horde and imp - it stopped working. (Or let's say, after a log time...) The symptomes: .htaccess-files are parsed - for when I write impropper syntax, apache writes errormessages. It looks as if only the AuthUserFile-information is simply ignored. When one tries to login, apache claims in its error-log that it couldn't find the user in the restricted web-directory (nonsense!). ([error] user testuser not found: /restricted_dir/) My homework: I read 20 manuals and I have checked every setting and every line in /etc/apache/httpd.conf. Everything is set correctly. I have checked each and every .htaccess-file and regenarated the password-files: It did not work. I have moved the syntax from the .htaccess-file to the httpd.conf-file as directory-directive: It did not change anything. I have removed the webserver from the system, removed the rest by hand and reinstalled everything from another source: this didn'd change a thing. And at last I had tried to change the combination of modules, which was quite confusing in the results, but it didn't change my problem. (Which modules are needed for minimal restriction, anyway?) I wrote Emails to apache and to the maintainer of the debian-package, but I didn't get any answers yet. Does anybody have an idea about this strange behavior? (Of the server, of course..) Thank you very much in forward to any suggestions. Greetings, Oliver ps. some configurations: AllowOverride is set to All everywhere. My directives for an example-directory in httpd.conf: <Directory "/usr/local/httpd/htdocs/restricted_dir"> AuthType Basic require valid-user Satisfy all AuthName "test" AuthUserFile /etc/apache/access_files/testdir </Directory> -- ## Oliver Sass (oas) ## [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## Heidelberg, DE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
