[users@httpd] What can cause Apache to 'ignore' AuthBasic in a ?

[Angus McIntyre <an...@pobox.com>]

I have a number of virtual hosts on a server running Apache 1.3. The 
configuration directives for each vhost are stored in separate files 
that are pulled in by an Include in 'httpd.conf'. I know that the 
vhost configurations are being read, because the vhosts are there and 
behaving as expected.

I'd like to password-protect a directory on one of my vhosts. Here's 
what I have in its config file (extraneous details removed).

	<VirtualHost 123.123.123.123>
		DocumentRoot /home/example/www/
		ServerName www.example.net
		ServerAlias example.net

		<Directory "/usr/home/example/www/logs">
		   AuthType Basic
		   AuthName "example.net administration"
		   AuthUserFile /usr/home/example/.htpasswd
		   Require valid-user
		</Directory>
	</VirtualHost>

A suitable and readable p/w file exists at the specified location. 
'mod_auth' is apparently loaded. As far as I can tell, everything is 
done as recommended in the Apache how-tos, including restarting the 
server after editing the file.

The problem is that no authentication is being done. If I try to 
access something in the theoretically-protected directory, no 
authentication dialog is presented.

Have I made an elementary mistake in the vhost configuration, or 
could there be some directive in the 'httpd.conf' file that could be 
somehow disabling the effect of AuthType and related directives in 
the vhost configuration?

Any suggestions would be welcome, thank you,

Angus

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Re: [users@httpd] What can cause Apache to 'ignore' AuthBasic in a ?

[Joshua Slive <js...@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 17:21:14 -0400, Angus McIntyre <an...@pobox.com> wrote:

>                 DocumentRoot /home/example/www/

>                 <Directory "/usr/home/example/www/logs">

What's that "/usr" doing on the front.  Either a typo or a symlink. 
Either way, it is wrong, since apache doesn't reset the path when
following symlinks.

Joshua.

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