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Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 9:37 PM
To: 'Apache Frontpage support list'
Subject: RE: [Fwd: [Apache-FP] Root web '80' does not accept password]
I am having the same problem...is there anyone who can offer any suggestions?
Tom
I would suggest changing the password. Here is how I was instructed to do so
(by Joshua and it worked):
There is a Frontpage master admin (g-d) account. This user can access the main admin page on port 8090 and extend webs and do admin type things. The master admin account is stored in
/usr/local/frontpage/version5.0/admin-exes/_vti_pvt/
service.grp service.pwd
The way to change the master admin is to edit service.grp file to change
"root" (or whatever usename you had in there) to be whatever you want. Then
open service.pwd and delete the line with "root" . Now to change the
encrypted password stored in service.grp
you type this... (replacing root with whatever you put in service.grp)
htpasswd -n root
and enter the new password when prompted. The line that is returned will be
the replacement line to paste in to service.pwd.
You have now updated the master admin password. I think there isn't an easier way to do this simply because it is a very powerful account.
You can also re-run owsadm.exe with the options to create the admin port on an unused port with a new username and password. If you want to re-use the existing admin port, delete it's VirtualHost section, restart your web server and then re-run owsadm.exe with the options to create the admin port on the old (and now unused) port.
I don't think that was the issue though since they were talking about a port 80 web.
I think your term 'root web' while correct threw off the other poster. You can either apply their suggestions of editing the service.pwd and service.grp files of your frontpage enabled 'main web' by hand (/path/to/web/_vti_pvt/ instead of /usr/local/frontpage/etc) or you can use the GlobalAdmin web page to remove the extensions and then re-apply the extensions or you can use owsadm.exe.Message: 3 Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 21:46:09 -0500 From: "Tom Shepard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks! I tried this but it did not solve my problem. I can access the main admin page on port 8080 but when I try to go to the site administration site for the main web it asks for a password again and the admin password does not work.
Any other suggestions?
Tom
It seems like I had a problem at one point where extending a web with owsadm.exe (or was it the GlobalAdmin web?) somehow created a htpassword that was incompatible with my web server, but I think that was when I had apache and apache2 installed. Editing the password file by hand worked for me. So did removing apache2 and only trying to do FPSE on apache.
If a partial remove/restore doesn't work then try a full remove/restore or try the manual editing of the _vti_pvt/service.* files.
If all that fails to work then you probably have other apache configuration issues at hand like AllowOverride None or some other problem that is keeping your .htaccess files from being read and followed (maybe file permissions?).
Frontpage isn't (that much) black box magic. On *nix It's just 100's of configuration files scattered in your web and /usr/local/frontpage/versionX/ with some permission checks in the code. Sometimes things don't get installed right or a permission or setting gets changed and we don't realize the impact until a while later when we try to admin the once working site.
Generally, using the GlobalAdmin web to partially or fully uninstall and then re-install the extensions does the trick since it re-permissions your web as well as editing or creating the .htaccess files. Sometimes you need to delete or edit the existing .htaccess files to get the owsadmin.exe or GlobalAdmin web to start working because the programs fail to parse the existing .htaccess files.
If you know you didn't put any .htaccess files in the web's directory and want to quickly remove them all:
find /path/to/web -name ".htaccess" | xargs rm
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