Re: Mod_Perl Authentication

[Levi E. Stanley]

Thanx mpeters for responding to my question.  Actually, php is installed 
and the default setting for directoryIndex  is working correctly across 
my other VirtualHosts.  I found someone who was having the same problem 
with embeddedperl, and I looked at the VirtualHost config the person who 
helped him, and it turns out it was SetHandler perl-script that was the 
problem for him and me.  If you take that line out, it authenticates and 
loads up the DirectoryIndex stuff.

Just wanted to update you on what I did to fix it, so there will be one 
more reference on the net.

Thank you for your help, it was greatly appreciated.
Best regards,
Levi
mpeters wrote:
Levi E. Stanley wrote:
Hi, I have written a authentication module, which seems to work fine 
but after you put in the correct username and password, it seems to 
have forgotten to load up any of the files in the DocumentIndex.

For example when I type this in the browser 
http://www.twistedme.com/protected/ I get a Not Found error (The 
requested URL /protected/ was not found on this server.

But if I do this http://www.twistedme.com/protected/index.php it 
seems it wants to download the file, if I convert it into index.html, 
it renders it correctly.  Am I missing something?

I has nothing to do with your authentication module. I'd bet you'd see 
the same results whether you had your auth turned off or not. It's the 
fact that you haven't told apache what to use as your index. See below...

This is what my config file looks like for apache if it helps.
<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   DocumentRoot /mnt/sites/twistedme.com
   ServerAlias vibing.com www.twistedme.com
   ServerName twistedme.com
   PerlModule Apache2
   PerlModule My::Authenticate
   <Directory /mnt/sites/twistedme.com/protected>

You need a
         DirectoryIndex index.php
somethere inside of this Directory directive. The reason it won't 
execute the script is also an apache/php configuration problem. Do you 
have php installed? Either way you need to consult the php docs cause 
it has nothing to do with mod_perl.

       SetHandler perl-script
       PerlAuthenHandler My::Authenticate
             AuthType Basic
       AuthName "My Protected Area"
       Require valid-user
   </Directory>
   CustomLog /mnt/sites/logs/twistedme.com-access.log combined
   ErrorLog  /mnt/raid/sites/logs/twistedme.com-error.log
</VirtualHost>
HTH

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