I've pawed though the archives, to no avail... I've almost, but not quite, have Apache::AuthCookieDBI working for me.
The symptom I'm seeing (to my eye) is that my browser is never getting cookies sent back to it, even if I hand login.pl a valid user/password. (So I infer from the final error message; see below.) Details of my setup: Apache::AuthCookieDBI 1.18 $ httpd -v Server version: Apache/1.3.12 Cobalt (Unix) (please don't laugh) Server built: May 25 2001 17:23:24 In my httpd.conf: <Files *.pl> SetHandler perl-script PerlHandler Apache::Registry Options ExecCGI PerlSendHeader On </Files> PerlSetVar CredTestDBI_DSN "DBI:mysql:database=devel_db" PerlSetVar CredTestDBI_User "yyyyyyyy" PerlSetVar CredTestDBI_Password "xxxxxx" PerlSetVar CredTestDBI_UsersTable "cred_test_user" PerlSetVar CredTestDBI_GroupsTable "cred_test_group" PerlSetVar CredTestDBI_SecretKeyFile "/home/sites/siteNN/cred_auth.key" PerlSetVar CredTestPath / PerlSetVar CredTestLoginScript /cgi-bin/login.pl PerlSetVar AuthCookieDebug 3 PerlModule Apache::AuthCookieDBI <Location /credentials/private> AuthType Apache::AuthCookieDBI AuthName CredTest PerlAuthenHandler Apache::AuthCookieDBI->authenticate PerlAuthzHandler Apache::AuthCookieDBI->authorize require valid-user </Location> <Files LOGIN> AuthType Apache::AuthCookieDBI AuthName CredTest SetHandler perl-script PerlHandler Apache::AuthCookieDBI->login </Files> When I make a request for /credentials/private/index.html, I indeed get the login page. My (slightly sanitized) web log shows: [Wed May 22 01:15:59 2002] [error] auth_type Apache::AuthCookieDBI [Wed May 22 01:15:59 2002] [error] auth_name CredTest [Wed May 22 01:15:59 2002] [error] ses_key_cookie [Wed May 22 01:15:59 2002] [error] uri /credentials/private/index.html I then fill in the fields, and hit 'submit': [Wed May 22 01:16:03 2002] [error] Converting POST -> GET Now, my browser's connection hangs for a few minutes, ultimately yielding no data. If I get impatient, and terminate things browser-side; my web log then shows: [Wed May 22 01:16:26 2002] [error] credential_0 foo [Wed May 22 01:16:26 2002] [error] credential_1 bar [Wed May 22 01:16:26 2002] [error] access to /LOGIN failed for NNN.NNN.NNN.NNN, reason: Apache::AuthCookieDBI: didn't have the secret key for auth realm CredTest [Wed May 22 01:16:26 2002] [error] ses_key bad I get these same result with two different browsers, and using the example login.pl programs that come with Apache::AuthCookieDBI and Apache::AuthCookie. Does anyone have any insight on what I'm _supposed_ to be seeing? -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path