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Old 06-02-2010, 09:54 AM   #1
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http auth question


Hello

I have a sysinformation program installed in /home/user/sys. the folder exist and i have the following in my httpd.conf & confoguration file for my domain. Im running apache2 by the way.

HTTPD.conf
<Directory "/home/user/sys/">
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.htpasswd
AuthName "Restricted Area"
AuthType Basic
require valid-user
</Directory>

Domain file config file
<Directory /home/user/public_html/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>

but it wont ask for a password, why??

also, i have a stats program running on my server, you access it trough http://mydomain.com: port same thing here, how can i make is so it ask for login and password when going there ?

Last edited by razzera; 06-02-2010 at 10:17 AM.
 
Old 06-02-2010, 12:06 PM   #2
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Hi,

I don't understand what is the Domain file config file.
If you have configured a vhost that uses /home/user/public_html as docroot, then it's not going to work. You have to change it to /home/user/sys/public_html, because apache looks for auth info from the directory used in the URL and upwards. So it will find the auth directives at /home/user/sys and will ask for authentication.
Also "AllowOverride" is not needed as you don't use .htaccess

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Old 06-04-2010, 10:19 AM   #3
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Hi,

I don't understand what is the Domain file config file.
If you have configured a vhost that uses /home/user/public_html as docroot, then it's not going to work. You have to change it to /home/user/sys/public_html, because apache looks for auth info from the directory used in the URL and upwards. So it will find the auth directives at /home/user/sys and will ask for authentication.
Also "AllowOverride" is not needed as you don't use .htaccess

Regards
ah sorry the Domain file config is the file in /etc/apache2/Sites-enabled/mysite. i just explained it extremly badly :P

Also i do use .htaccess files so that's why i have AllowOverride.
 
Old 06-04-2010, 04:37 PM   #4
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So, does it work, or no?
Since you're using .htaccess you can put the auth directives in a .htaccess in the directory you want to password protect.
 
  


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