Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

2003-10-02 Thread S. L.
[...] > So, to summarize, it appears that Apache under Cygwin is able to deal > with web pages when paths are UNC paths of the form > / however the authentication module does > not like such paths and seems to fail silently. Personally I believe > that if the server can accept an UNC path t

Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

2003-10-01 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Brian Dessent wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: Hmmm... As I said it appears to work in the local case. Or are you saying I should try to break that by playing with permissions? Are there any examples of "smbntsec" issues? I mean I suspect that if I do something as small as remove read permission

Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

2003-10-01 Thread Brian Dessent
Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Hmmm... As I said it appears to work in the local case. Or are you > saying I should try to break that by playing with permissions? Are there > any examples of "smbntsec" issues? > > I mean I suspect that if I do something as small as remove read > permission for other on

Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

2003-09-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Andrew, Perhaps you could try playing with the permissions on the .htaccess file to see if you can reproduce the problem in your local directory. If you manage to do that, you could see if this is a "smbntsec" issue. Hmmm... As I said it appears to work in the local cas

Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

2003-09-30 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > Andrew, > > > > Could this be a text vs. binary issue? I'm grasping at straws here... > > It's good that you've moved everything to the local disk - it helps to > > eliminate as many variables as possible. Did you get an a

Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

2003-09-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Andrew, Could this be a text vs. binary issue? I'm grasping at straws here... It's good that you've moved everything to the local disk - it helps to eliminate as many variables as possible. Did you get an authenticated access webpage (.html, as opposed to a CGI script)

Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

2003-09-30 Thread Stipe Tolj
Andrew DeFaria wrote: > > Besides I recreated a bare environment and copied my stuff from the > server to /var/www/htdocs/addbug with the same error. at least you're the first reporting this kind of behaviour. Did you try to use the httpd.conf.dist "distribution configuration"? Stipe [EMAIL PR

Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

2003-09-30 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Stipe Tolj wrote: > > >> I would tend to agree except this config worked with Apache for Windows. > > > > which does not mean that Apache for Cygwin acts the same way as the > > native Win32 counterpart. > > > > I'm not sure if you can use network resou

Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

2003-09-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Stipe Tolj wrote: I would tend to agree except this config worked with Apache for Windows. which does not mean that Apache for Cygwin acts the same way as the native Win32 counterpart. I'm not sure if you can use network resource location that way as you can in Apache for Windows. I would guess

Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

2003-09-30 Thread Andrew DeFaria
S. L. wrote: [...] # Secure addbug form AuthName "permission to add a bug" AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /etc/apache/addbug_users Require valid-user However that fails to work. [...] An "AllowOverride AuthConfig" directive, must also be placed. E.g. Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride

Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

2003-09-30 Thread Stipe Tolj
> I would tend to agree except this config worked with Apache for Windows. which does not mean that Apache for Cygwin acts the same way as the native Win32 counterpart. I'm not sure if you can use network resource location that way as you can in Apache for Windows. I would guess not. Stipe [EMA

Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

2003-09-29 Thread S. L.
[...] > # Secure addbug form > > AuthName "permission to add a bug" > AuthType Basic > AuthUserFile /etc/apache/addbug_users > Require valid-user > > > However that fails to work. [...] An "AllowOverride AuthConfig" directive, must also be placed. E.g. Options Indexes Fol

Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

2003-09-29 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Stipe Tolj wrote: With the same non-success. I had cranked up the loglevel in the hopes that something about the failure would be written to the logs but nothing is. How can I debug/fix this? Does Apache for Cygwin do any authentication at all? yes it does (or did ;) at least for a considerable

Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

2003-09-29 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Stipe Tolj wrote: Now that Apache for Cygwin seems to work more reliably I have started using it as my web server. However authentication (that was working with Apache for Windows) broke. I'm wondering if this is an Apache for Cygwin specific problem. I used to have this implemented at the ser

Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

2003-09-29 Thread Brian Dessent
Andrew DeFaria wrote: > # Secure addbug form > My WAG is that it has something to do with this UNC path. I don't know whether the "//" thing is currently deprecated or not, but I do remember seeing a recent check-in dealing with either removing or re-enabling it, or something like that. Why no

Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

2003-09-29 Thread Stipe Tolj
> With the same non-success. I had cranked up the loglevel in the hopes > that something about the failure would be written to the logs but > nothing is. How can I debug/fix this? Does Apache for Cygwin do any > authentication at all? yes it does (or did ;) at least for a considerable time. I don'

Re: Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

2003-09-29 Thread Stipe Tolj
> Now that Apache for Cygwin seems to work more reliably I have started > using it as my web server. However authentication (that was working with > Apache for Windows) broke. I'm wondering if this is an Apache for Cygwin > specific problem. > > I used to have this implemented at the server level

Using authentication under Apache for Cygwin

2003-09-29 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Now that Apache for Cygwin seems to work more reliably I have started using it as my web server. However authentication (that was working with Apache for Windows) broke. I'm wondering if this is an Apache for Cygwin specific problem. I used to have this implemented at the server level in the ht