At 12:21 PM 9/20/00 , Jonathan Wilson wrote:
>Finally I'm being asked for a password, but I'm getting "Authorization
>failed, retry?" errors.
>
>Any ideas why? I'm using htpasswd, read several examples and the man page,
>it's so simple it's hard to mess up. Permissions and directives are as follows:
>
>[root@csc003 RedHatUpdates]# ls -l /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34087 Sep 20 12:05
>/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
>
><VirtualHost *IP_addresss_here*>
> ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> DocumentRoot /Webhomes/Vanguard_mailer
> ErrorLog logs/VanguardMailer-error_log
> CustomLog logs/VanguardMailer-access_log common
> <Directory /Webhomes/Vanguard_mailer>
> AllowOverride AuthConfig
> </Directory>
></VirtualHost>
>
>[root@csc003 RedHatUpdates]# ls -l /Webhomes/Vanguard_mailer/.htaccess
>-rw-r--r-- 1 admin users 128 Sep 20 11:33
>/Webhomes/Vanguard_mailer/.htaccess
>
>[root@csc003 RedHatUpdates]# cat /Webhomes/Vanguard_mailer/.htaccess
>AuthType Basic
>AuthName "By Invitation Only"
>AuthUserFile /work/htpasswd.vanguard
>AuthGroupFile /dev/null
>require user *username_here*
>
>
>[root@csc003 RedHatUpdates]# ls -l /work/htpasswd.vanguard
>-rw-r--r-- 1 admin users 23 Sep 20 12:08
>/work/htpasswd.vanguard
I think the permissions you posted look OK but become nobody (# su -
nobody) and try to cat everything to make sure.
I'm not sure of the implications of your AuthGroupFile and require
lines. My working basic_auth omits the AuthGroupFile and simply says
'require valid-user'.
Finally, I'm sure you're way beyond this but you're sure you added the
username and password correctly? It's hard to screw up the password but
the username could have a typo and if it is this, you'll be pulling all
your hair out...
BTW, I think the default Red Hat Apache explicitly disables overriding
authconfig... so that's why you have to add the directory entry in
httpd.conf. You wouldn't necessarily need to modify httpd.conf if you had
rolled your own httpd.conf from scratch.
-Alan Mead
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