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Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin
- From: Stipe Tolj <tolj at wapme-systems dot de>
- To: Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria at Salira dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 02:17:46 +0200
- Subject: Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin
- Organization: Wapme Systems AG
- References: <blahja$33i$1@sea.gmane.org>
> Now that Apache for Cygwin seems to work more reliably I have started
> using it as my web server. However authentication (that was working with
> Apache for Windows) broke. I'm wondering if this is an Apache for Cygwin
> specific problem.
>
> I used to have this implemented at the server level in the httpd.conf
> file like so:
>
> # Secure addbug form
> <Directory "//sonscentral/users/adefaria/www/Internal/Release/addbug/">
> AuthName "permission to add a bug"
> AuthType Basic
> AuthUserFile /etc/apache/addbug_users
> Require valid-user
> </Directory>
>
> However that fails to work. The user is let in without being prompted
> for a username/password. I've also tried using a .htaccess file:
>
> AuthType Basic
> AuthName "permission to add a bug"
> AuthUserFile /etc/apache/addbug_users
>
> Require valid-user
>
> With the same non-success. I had cranked up the loglevel in the hopes
> that something about the failure would be written to the logs but
> nothing is. How can I debug/fix this? Does Apache for Cygwin do any
> authentication at all?
>
> Apache 1.3.24; Cygwin 1.5.4
did you used "AuthGroupFile /dev/null" in this scope too?
I have no clue for this, because Authentication using the standard
mod_auth was working very reliably since decades for me.
BTW, why is the <Director> path starting with *two* slashes? Maybe we
got the raeson for this behaviour at this point.
Stipe
tolj@wapme-systems.de
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