I inquired of the list a few days ago:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modssl&m=98987009932371&w=2
Thanks to the respondents. Appended below is the solution (edited
portions of my httpd.conf) with which I'm going. Now I have the
pleasure of dealing with Microsoft's Web Folders implementation (a DAV
client) which re-asks for username/password way too often. None of
the other DAV clients I've tested do that.
Kingsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
DocumentRoot "/usr/local/apache/htdocs"
<Directory />
AllowOverride None
Options None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs/author>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs/author/staging>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Directory>
<VirtualHost _default_:443>
<Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs>
SSLRequireSSL
DAV On
AuthType Basic
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs/author>
Options Indexes
require user author
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/local/apache/htdocs/author/staging>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
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