LinuxQuestions.org - Avahi Error Message while using Basic Auth in Apache 2.2 under Fedora 11

Since I have discovered the packages are so different in different distributions, it was unclear to me whether this post belongs here in this forum or in one specific to Fedora, but here goes: I get the error message:

Code:

[error] avahi_entry_group_add_service_strlst("10.10.5.71") failed: Invalid host name

in the error_log file while restarting Apache 2.2 after adding the following naive lines for implementing Basic Auth:

Code:

# Now trying Mario's idea:

ProxyRequests On

ProxyVia On

<Proxy *>

  Order deny,allow

  Allow from all

  AuthType Basic

  AuthName "Password Required"

  AuthUserFile password.file

  AuthGroupFile group.file

  Require group usergroup

</Proxy>

The above lines are not conditioned by any <Directory> or <VirtualHost>. In fact, I have no Virtual Host defined, and both Listen and ServerName point to the IP address.

password.file and group.file were made following the instructions Mario gave at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7...authentication.

I realize Basic auth is pathetically weak. But I want to deal with one problem at a time. Especially since the above lines mostly work.

TIA.