I'm having a problem using the Files directive to require authentication
on the index.html file. It doesn't work if it is requested with the
index URL but does if the URL specifies the file directly. I can't
believe that I'm the only person ever to try to do this but maybe I am.
So if I request http://localhost/ I get the following error and NO user
name/password dialog.
401 Authorization Required
Authorization Required
This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the
document requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad
password), or your browser doesn't understand how to supply the
credentials required.
But if I request http://localhost/index.html I get the Authentication
Required dialog and can enter the user name and password and then
receive the file.
I've tested this with FireFox and Chrome. I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 and
apache 2.2.16.
Here is the access log from the first request
127.0.0.1 - - [28/May/2011:11:31:16 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 401 618 "-"
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110422
Ubuntu/10.10 (maverick) Firefox/3.6.17"
and the access log from the second request
127.0.0.1 - knute [28/May/2011:11:30:12 -0700] "GET /index.html
HTTP/1.1" 200 485 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;
rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110422 Ubuntu/10.10 (maverick) Firefox/3.6.17"
The error.log is empty.
Here is the virtual host configuration file
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
# added for testing
# any files require group any membership
<Files index.html>
AuthType Basic
AuthName "ARCLA Lookers"
AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/passwords/arcla.pwd
AuthGroupFile /usr/local/apache/passwords/groups
Require group lookers players honchos
</Files>
# this file requires group membership
<Files status-update.html>
AuthType Basic
AuthName "ARCLA Players"
AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/passwords/arcla.pwd
AuthGroupFile /usr/local/apache/passwords/groups
Require group players honchos
</Files>
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
# added for testing
<Files printenv.pl>
AuthType Basic
AuthName "test"
AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/passwords/arcla.pwd
AuthGroupFile /usr/local/apache/passwords/groups
Require group honchos
</Files>
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
The DirectoryIndex directive is in dir.conf
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi index.pl index.php
index.xhtml index.htm
</IfModule>
Thanks,
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Knute Johnson
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