Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] basic auth config

2005-11-16 Thread Mike Dewhirst
Mike Dewhirst wrote: Boyle Owen wrote: -Original Message- From: Mike Dewhirst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Some people are convinced the Earth is flat but that don't make it so :-) By far the most likely reason for your problem still is that apache is misconfigured. You are still rig

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] basic auth config

2005-11-16 Thread Mike Dewhirst
Boyle Owen wrote: -Original Message- From: Mike Dewhirst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm convinced Apache 2.0.53 doesn't work as advertised in the docs when you try to get Basic Auth working without a .htaccess file. Some people are convinced the Earth is flat but that don't make it s

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] basic auth config

2005-11-14 Thread Mike Dewhirst
Boyle Owen wrote: -Original Message- From: Mike Dewhirst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm convinced Apache 2.0.53 doesn't work as advertised in the docs when you try to get Basic Auth working without a .htaccess file. Some people are convinced the Earth is flat but that don't make it s

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] basic auth config

2005-11-14 Thread Boyle Owen
> -Original Message- > From: Mike Dewhirst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I'm convinced Apache 2.0.53 doesn't work as advertised in the > docs when > you try to get Basic Auth working without a .htaccess file. Some people are convinced the Earth is flat but that don't make it so :-) By

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] basic auth config

2005-11-13 Thread Mike Dewhirst
Joshua I'm convinced Apache 2.0.53 doesn't work as advertised in the docs when you try to get Basic Auth working without a .htaccess file. I can get it to request a userid and password with AllowOverride AuthConfig and using a .htaccess file. Which brings me to a followup question ... It d

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] basic auth config

2005-11-12 Thread Mike Dewhirst
Joshua Slive wrote: On 11/12/05, Mike Dewhirst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does apache2ctl confirm that httpd actually reads that file on startup? Depends on how httpd normally gets started. If it is started using apache2ctl, then that is a good indication. OK - on investigation it ain't

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] basic auth config

2005-11-12 Thread Joshua Slive
On 11/12/05, Mike Dewhirst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does apache2ctl confirm that httpd actually reads that file on startup? Depends on how httpd normally gets started. If it is started using apache2ctl, then that is a good indication. Joshua. ---

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] basic auth config

2005-11-11 Thread Mike Dewhirst
Joshua Slive wrote: 2) looking at the wrong config file; Lets go back to what Nick asked you. Your answer to him was ambiguous. When you put some random garbage in the config file (like a directive FooBar that doesn't exist) and restarted the server, did you or did you not receive an error m

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] basic auth config

2005-11-10 Thread Mike Dewhirst
Joshua Slive wrote: On 11/10/05, Mike Dewhirst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2) looking at the wrong config file; Not sure about that. I'm gunna strip things back and try to start from scratch. Lets go back to what Nick asked you. Your answer to him was ambiguous. When you put some random g

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] basic auth config

2005-11-10 Thread Joshua Slive
On 11/10/05, Mike Dewhirst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2) looking at the wrong config file; > > Not sure about that. I'm gunna strip things back and try to start from > scratch. Lets go back to what Nick asked you. Your answer to him was ambiguous. When you put some random garbage in the confi

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] basic auth config

2005-11-10 Thread Mike Dewhirst
Joshua Slive wrote: On 11/10/05, Mike Dewhirst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: They are identical. There was no trailing slash but sticking that in made no difference anyway so I took it out again. It would help if you gave us the exact error message. Sometimes a few hundred more eyes can find t

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] basic auth config

2005-11-10 Thread Joshua Slive
On 11/10/05, Mike Dewhirst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > They are identical. There was no trailing slash but sticking that in > made no difference anyway so I took it out again. It would help if you gave us the exact error message. Sometimes a few hundred more eyes can find things that you misse

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] basic auth config

2005-11-10 Thread Mike Dewhirst
Joshua Slive wrote: On 11/10/05, Mike Dewhirst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nick Kew wrote: On Thursday 10 November 2005 09:56, Mike Dewhirst wrote: In /etc/Apache2/conf.d - basic_auth.conf which only contains ... Check that that's being included. Put some random junk in - if you don't

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] basic auth config

2005-11-10 Thread Joshua Slive
On 11/10/05, Mike Dewhirst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Kew wrote: > > On Thursday 10 November 2005 09:56, Mike Dewhirst wrote: > > > > > >>In /etc/Apache2/conf.d - basic_auth.conf which only contains ... > > > > > > Check that that's being included. Put some random junk in - > > if you don't

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] basic auth config

2005-11-10 Thread Mike Dewhirst
Nick Kew wrote: On Thursday 10 November 2005 09:56, Mike Dewhirst wrote: In /etc/Apache2/conf.d - basic_auth.conf which only contains ... Check that that's being included. Put some random junk in - if you don't get a syntax error, that's the problem. I did that but everything seemed as p

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] basic auth config

2005-11-10 Thread Nick Kew
On Thursday 10 November 2005 09:56, Mike Dewhirst wrote: > In /etc/Apache2/conf.d - basic_auth.conf which only contains ... Check that that's being included. Put some random junk in - if you don't get a syntax error, that's the problem. > > > # forbid access to the entire filesystem by defaul

[EMAIL PROTECTED] basic auth config

2005-11-10 Thread Mike Dewhirst
I'm attempting to set up basic auth without .htaccess files and cannot see where I'm going wrong. I haven't tried it with .htaccess because I don't particularly want to use them. I have read the mod_auth and Authorization and Access Control docs as well as Chapter 2 of Ivan Ristic's Apache Sec