On 05/28/2011 02:07 PM, Jeroen Geilman wrote:
On 05/28/2011 08:51 PM, Knute Johnson wrote:
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.
That is not possible; a 4xx error is always logged in the error log.
Why would I make it up. There is nothing in the error log. 401 errors
show up in the access log though.
Here is the virtual host configuration file
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
This does not belong in a vhost.
Except for the Files directives that I added this is unchanged from the
install.
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
# added for testing
# any files require group any membership
Requests that hit DirectoryIndex hit this resource block
Then why does it not work? If I request a file that isn't index.html it
sends it to me.
<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
However, requests for the exact file resource hit this resource block.
</Files>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
Apache will refuse to run when it cannot write to the error log, so you
are likely not looking at the right one.
It writes to the error log file that I am looking at. I can request a
non-existent file and the error shows up in the error log just fine.
DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi index.pl index.php index.xhtml
index.htm
THIS is the reason the requests behave differently.
Isn't the whole purpose of DirectoryIndex to serve up one of the above
files if you request the index? So why doesn't the Files directive work
and why does apache return the odd error? How do I make it work?
Thanks,
--
Knute Johnson
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