RE: [us...@httpd] Problems with AuthType Basic in site file

2009-02-02 Thread Kohne, Mike
Thanks to Sheldon Ross and Eric Covener for answers that finally pointed me in the right direction. My problems were many: My sections had incomplete matching of pathnames. This meant that they actually weren't matching at all. My sections had (in some cases) pathnames that didn't exist on the ta

Re: [us...@httpd] Problems with AuthType Basic in site file

2009-01-30 Thread Eric Covener
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Kohne, Mike wrote: ># For some reason, Options +Includes doesn't work if used ># inside a DirectoryMatch block, or a Directory block which ># uses regex to match the directory name. ># Thus, I've eliminated all DirectoryMatch blocks.

Re: [us...@httpd] Problems with AuthType Basic in site file

2009-01-30 Thread Sheldon Ross
I realize that wasn't a very complete response A) replace "/status" with your location/directory. B) the Tag can be for any mapping to that url, or if it is a static directory on your server. C) this is assuming you have a centralized user/pass file at /etc/apache2/htusers D) if not, you need

Re: [us...@httpd] Problems with AuthType Basic in site file

2009-01-30 Thread Sheldon Ross
First your site file need to contains AuthName "Private Site" AuthType basic AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/htusers require valid-user And I've found that a force-reload doesn't always recognize this, you(I anyway) have

[us...@httpd] Problems with AuthType Basic in site file

2009-01-30 Thread Kohne, Mike
I'm running apache 2.2.3 on an Ubuntu 8.04 server. The server is a VMWare machine that I use for all my debugging. I have AuthType Basic directives inside blocks in my site config file. Right now, I'm finding that no one is ever being asked for username/password. Ever. At first I thought it was