Re: general/3618: can't use .htaccess authentication with ~user. .htaccess is totally ignored.

[Eugene Blanchard <bl...@cadvision.com>]

The following reply was made to PR general/3618; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Eugene Blanchard <bl...@cadvision.com>
To: marc@apache.org
Cc: apbugs@apache.org
Subject: Re: general/3618: can't use .htaccess authentication with
  ~user. .htaccess is totally ignored.
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 23:00:04 -0700

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 >Synopsis: can't use .htaccess authentication with ~user. .htaccess is
 totally ignored.
 >
 >State-Changed-From-To: open-feedback
 >State-Changed-By: marc
 >State-Changed-When: Mon Jan  4 00:15:09 PST 1999
 >State-Changed-Why:
 >Well, what does the error log say?
 
 Everything normal - no errors reported
 
 >What does "echo ~user" from a shell say?  ie. are you sure
 >it is actually /home being used, and not just something that
 >is a symlink to /home or /home is a symlink to.
 
 "echo ~user" reports /home/~user
  
 >You have
 >to modify your settings for the directory listed in the passwd
 >file.
 
 I tried ~user/path/passwdfile and it was ignored.
 
 >All that "deny from none" does is deny accesses from a host
 >called "none".
 
 Thanks - removed..
 
 >This is almost certainly a configuration error and is very
 >unlikely to be anything resembling a bug in Apache.
 
 I rechecked all permissions and found that I had .htaccess set to 711,
 changed to 755. I then noticed that I had an extra file called
 "access.conf%". It had the configuration that I used to check /home
 directory configuration (typo in file name?). I reconfigured access.conf
 for /home and everything worked fine.
 
 Yes it was a configuration error - PEBKAC (problem exists between keyboard
 and chair). Thanks for responding and making me double check everything
 again. :-)
 
 
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