> On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Eric Jennings wrote: > > > I *believe* you need to "AllowOverride AuthConfig" if you wish to use > > .htaccess files within the /var/www directory to authenticate users. > > I may be wrong, but give it a shot. > > Sadly, you were wrong. <sigh>
Actually, you weren't :) Turning "AllowOverride AuthConfig" on caused Apache to barf unexpectedly, which in turn produced an intelligent message in the error log. (Worryingly, I hadn't been getting anything at all in the logs previous to that.) Turns out that I have legacy directives for xbithack set in _some_ of my .htaccess files; but not all. Removing these from all .htaccess files, and adding the AllowOverride AuthConfig directive to my doc root <Directory> in access.conf has now solved the problem. > Other than regularly updating the system, I don't know what I've changed > since it used to work :) The need for the xbithack directive for SSIs must have been negated in an update somewhere along the line; but I've no idea when. Nothing gave me any warning. Thanks for all help offered via the list though. -- Martin Wheeler - StarTEXT - Glastonbury - BA6 9PH - England [1] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.startext.co.uk/ - Share your knowledge. It's one way to achieve immortality. -