Because you are not using encryption, I hope that you know anyone on your network can sniff your login usernames and passwords used for your webserver.
You can get a free SSL certificate from: https://letsencrypt.org/ You can test your SSL server here: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html and here: https://en.internet.nl/ Landon On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 7:07 AM Andrew Hoff <andrew.h...@bigpond.com.invalid> wrote: > Hello, > > Strange problem. Everything was going great for at least six years then > all of a sudden authentication using port 80 failed. Authentication using > port 443 works fine. > I first noticed the problem because apache no longer creates the > REMOTE_USER env variable. *I want authentication using port 80, i.e. > plain vanilla http.* > > httpd.conf attached. See line 169. (httpd service is running.) > If I enter the following url it should bring up a login box: > http://172.18.0.20/~hoff (It no longer does.) > Error_log: [Thu Jul 20 21:39:57.913337 2023] [core:error] [pid 3460:tid > 3522] (13)Permission denied: [client 172.18.0.97:54422] AH00035: access > to /~hoff/index.html denied (filesystem path > '/home/hoff/public_html/index.html') because search permissions are missing > on a component of the path > > I rebuilt the server and am using fedora 38 fully updated. Problem still > persists. > > FYI only (netstat -nap | grep httpd): > tcp 0 0 172.18.0.20:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 3456/httpd > tcp 0 0 172.18.0.20:443 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 3456/httpd > tcp6 0 0 fec0::ac12:14:443 :::* LISTEN 3456/httpd > tcp6 0 0 fec0::ac12:14:80 :::* LISTEN 3456/httpd > > Regards, > > -- > > Andrew Hoff > 6/10 Middle Road > Maribyrnong 3032 > Victoria, AU > Tel: 0393185581 (Please leave a message.) > Mob: 0400966178 > Email: andrew.h...@bigpond.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
