Re: [users@httpd] Cannot authenticate (after six years)

[Landon <x...@mynetblog.com>]

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 <an...@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,
>
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>
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