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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Jorge Roque <jr...@wonderworld.net> on 2001/10/12 05:16:57 UTC

Authentication Questions

I am trying to set "Basic" Authentication with Apache. I create an
account with "htpasswd" in "AuthUserFile /home/public/wwwroot/passwd"
and when I try to access the folder I received the authentication prompt
but it continues to ask me for a user ID and password and does not let
me get in.

The following is my configuration:

 <Directory "/docs/">
        Allow from All
        Options Indexes Includes MultiViews
        IndexOptions FancyIndexing
        AllowOverride None
        AuthType Basic
        AuthName "Documentation Site"
        AuthUserFile /home/public/wwwroot/passwd
        AuthGroupFile /home/public/wwwroot/groups
        Require user jroque
    </Directory>

Could you please help me to find out why my apache server is not
accepting my authentication.


Thanks,

-- 
Jorge Roque
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Cel (305) 986-0217
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Re: Authentication Questions

Posted by Joshua Slive <sl...@commerce.ubc.ca>.
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Jorge Roque wrote:

>
> I am trying to set "Basic" Authentication with Apache. I create an
> account with "htpasswd" in "AuthUserFile /home/public/wwwroot/passwd"
> and when I try to access the folder I received the authentication prompt
> but it continues to ask me for a user ID and password and does not let
> me get in.
>
> The following is my configuration:
>
>  <Directory "/docs/">

A few points:

1. This is not a user support mailing list.  You should be asking this
question in one of the forums listed here:

http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#http-usenet

2. Three things you should look for

a) Are you using a cobalt box or another setup with mod_auth_sys or a
similar module?  If so, you need to disable that module to allow mod_auth
to work.

b) <Directory> takes unix filesystem paths, not web paths, so unless
/docs/ is a directory under your unix filesystem root, that is not
correct.

c) The error log often contains useful debugging information.  Always
include its contents in problem reports.

Joshua.

Re: Authentication Questions

Posted by Dirk-Willem van Gulik <di...@covalent.net>.
You may want to check your error log. It propably explains what is
happening.

Dw

On 11 Oct 2001, Jorge Roque wrote:

>
> I am trying to set "Basic" Authentication with Apache. I create an
> account with "htpasswd" in "AuthUserFile /home/public/wwwroot/passwd"
> and when I try to access the folder I received the authentication prompt
> but it continues to ask me for a user ID and password and does not let
> me get in.
>
> The following is my configuration:
>
>  <Directory "/docs/">
>         Allow from All
>         Options Indexes Includes MultiViews
>         IndexOptions FancyIndexing
>         AllowOverride None
>         AuthType Basic
>         AuthName "Documentation Site"
>         AuthUserFile /home/public/wwwroot/passwd
>         AuthGroupFile /home/public/wwwroot/groups
>         Require user jroque
>     </Directory>
>
> Could you please help me to find out why my apache server is not
> accepting my authentication.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>