[olug] apache authentication

[Adam Lassek]

On 30 Jun 2001 01:47:58 -0500, Adam Korab wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 05:43:23AM -0500, Adam Lassek wrote:
> > Just recently I realized a website I was running that was supposed to be
> > authenticated suddenly stopping prompting for a password. Now, I know
> 
> What does it do instead of asking for the password?  Just display the page?

Yes, instead of prompting for a password or anything, it just desplays
the page.

> 
> > this setup was working at one time, and I've changed nothing. So I'm
> 
> Anything relevant in the error_log for the affected VirtualHost?

Nothing relevent that I can see

> 
> > and here's the contents of the .htaccess file in /var/intranet:
> 
> Usually I also have a line containing AuthName, but I don't remember if this
> is strictly required or not.

Actually it does, I just omitted that line

> 
> > not a terribly complex authentication scheme, but it doesn't prompt for
> > anything like it used to. Can anybody tell me if I'm doing something
> > horribly wrong? As we have a Novell server here, I would like to
> 
> Does /etc/apache/htpasswd still exist, does it look uncorrupted, and do its
> permissions allow the webserver user to read it?  If not, I'd suspect you'd
> find something in the error log.

It's owned by root, but the permissions are 655, so I would think it
would be readable by the webserver.

> 
> --Adam
> -- 
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