Geoff, Thank you SOOOO much for your help. I used the status-perl?hooks and even though I am 200% positive I built mod_perl with EVERYTHING=1 (it was in the command history) the Authentication hook was Disabled. So I rebuilt my mod_perl this time using all the options listed for perl Makefile.PL that were included in the example of installing on Unix from the Developer's Cookbook.
Then I checked the hook again & it was enabled, and the authentication works! Thank you everyone! Jem -----Original Message----- From: Geoffrey Young [mailto:geoff@;modperlcookbook.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 7:14 AM To: Mitchel, Jennifer (Jem) Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: FW: mod_perl / PerlAuthenHandler question Mitchel, Jennifer (Jem) wrote: > Steve, > > I have no objection to replying to the mod_perl list. I have no idea what is wrong >& I > am so new at all of this that the more people who might have an idea the better. > > > I am running Apache 1.3.22 and mod_perl 1.21 on a Sun Solaris 2.6 machine. I'm sure > Apache and mod_perl are running as I can successfully grab that out of > $ENV{SERVER_SOFTWARE}. I'm using perl 5.005_03. > > I am trying use a .htaccess file to allow NT Authenitcation on a directory. >However, I > am getting a server error > >> Syntax error on line 6 of /web/content/askLucent/password-reset/.htaccess: Invalid >> command 'PerlAuthenHandler', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included >> in the server configuration that's an Apache error saying that the config directive 'PerlAuthenHandler' isn't recognized by anyone. this generally means that mod_perl isn't installed or that you didn't build with EVERYTHING=1, both of which you say you did. so... you showed us that mod_perl is installed, but not how it was built. why don't you verify that you have the right hook by setting up /perl-status and taking a peek around. see the Apache::Status manpage or recipe 1.14 in the cookbook: http://www.modperlcookbook.org/chapters/ch01.pdf you will want to check /perl-status?hooks and make sure that PerlAuthenHandler is marked as enabled. of course, you'll need to comment out the offending line in your httpd.conf first :) if PerlAuthenHandler comes back as enabled but you still get that error after restoring your original configuration, let us know and we'll try something else. HTH --Geoff
