Edit the .htaccess file so that it "allows" the machine on which you are
running htdig.  The Apache documentation will give you the correct syntax.

Beware of a potential security problem:  htdig may allow users to see
extracts from pages that would otherwise be denied them.

David Adams
Corporate Information Services
Information Systems Services
University of Southampton

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Muey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 1:09 AM
Subject: [htdig] Doing htdig for a .htacess protected dirtectory


> Hello list,
>
> When I do rundig -d -c /etc/htdig_foo.conf
> It says:
> ht://dig Start Time: Tue Jun 17 19:10:14 2003
>
> New server: www.foo.com, 80
>  - Persistent connections: enabled
>  - HEAD before GET: disabled
>  - Timeout: 30
>  - Connection space: 0
>  - Max Documents: -1
>  - TCP retries: 1
>  - TCP wait time: 5
>  - Accept-Language:
> 0:3:0:http://www.foo.com/secret/:  not authorized
> ht://dig End Time: Tue Jun 17 19:10:14 200
>
> That directory is .htaccess protected.
>
> How would one give the credentials for that so htdig can index that
directory?
>
> The search will be run from inside that directory, although htsearch is in
the central cgi-bin.
> Will the search need the login credentials somehow too?
>
>
> TIA
>
> Dan
>
>
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