---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "bahareh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 16:07:46 -0800
> >Tank you Mr. Kai for your help > >I did all that but still it doesn't work ? >May be it is because of user admin >I don't know? Should I adduser admin and set it special group? > >-----Original Message----- >From: Kai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 3:31 AM >To: bahareh >Subject: Re: [vqadmin] my vqadmin doesnt work > >At 23:56 23.12.2003, you wrote: >>Hi every body >>I installed vqmail for the first time on linux7.X I did every thing >that >>was in the "install instruction" >>But when I connect to it this error appears: >> >> >> >> Authentication Failed Username unknown >> >> >>vQadmin was unable to determine your username, which >>means your webserver is improperly configured to run >>with this CGI. For security reasons, this script >>will not run without Apache htaccess lists. >>Pleas could you tell me what should I do >> >>Regards Bahare Abedin > >You have to allow .htaccess files on you web server and you should have >it >and a password file >look at the ".htaccess" file in you vqadmin directory. > >It should look like this: >AuthType Basic >AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/current/conf/ vqadmin.passwd >AuthName vQadmin >require valid-user >satisfy any > >depending on you configuration, vqadmin.passwd can be located elsewhere >but >must exist with an entry like >admin:u5KhZynsB > >This is your admin access with an encrypted password. > >For the webserver I do have following settings in the httpd.conf: ><Directory "/home/www/cgi-sys/vqadmin"> > deny from all > Options ExecCGI > AllowOverride AuthConfig > Order deny,allow > </Directory> > >Good luck > The 2 biggest reasons I have found why people have these issue are: 1. All though nothing else seems to complain about this, which is why everyone over looks it, is your conf directory needs 755 permissions where as most default to 700. 2. Do not use an alias for the link. Seems that most browsers like safari will only work by typing the absolute path. Tom
