Thank you... cant believe I missed that... was to excited about the ability to do my own auth program.... I added allow from x.x.x.x
and it worked great.... Thank you. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoffrey Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 6:21 PM Subject: Re: mod_perl Basic Authentication problem using PerlAuthenHandler > > > Jason wrote: > > > In httpd.conf i have > > <Location /~jter> > > > [snip] > > > > Deny from all > > </Location> > > > [snip] > > > > > > It warns to the log file and returns.... But the problem is, why does my browser >come up "forbidden" > > I suspect "Deny from all" is the issue... > > the PerlAccessHandler will run before the apache default mod_access gets the > chance to implement the Deny rule. on a successful login, your > PerlAccessHandler will return OK, which is then denied by mod_access, resulting > in a FORBIDDEN message. > > unlike with the PerlAuthenHandler, which immediately terminates on the first OK, > the PerlAccessHandler will keep going in search of failure. > > > Has anybody gotten this to sucessfully work? > > yes :) > > you may be interested in chapter 13 of the cookbook, which should help clarify > things somewhat. > > --Geoff
