htaccess doesn't work

xpucto · 06-09-2008, 07:57 AM

Hi!

I use solaris 10 and I did follow the following tutorial
http://www.whoopis.com/howtos/apache-auth.html
in order to use htaccess for 1 directory on my webserver.
I've fist edited httpd.conf:
I added AllowOverride AuthConfig in the general part of the file
and in the virtual part of the server.
Then I've created a password file with htpasswd and an .htaccess file. I've restarted apache many times but I don't get any change, no login prompt to be seen.
What did I forget?
Thanks for any help.

bathory · 06-09-2008, 09:23 AM

Quote:

I've restarted apache many times but I don't get any change, no login prompt to be seen.

Make sure you have the following directive in the server part of httpd.conf

Code:

AccessFileName  .htaccess

and there is no "AllowOverride None".
Or check apache logs to see if you find anything.

Regards

xpucto · 06-10-2008, 05:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory

Make sure you have the following directive in the server part of httpd.conf

Code:

AccessFileName  .htaccess

and there is no "AllowOverride None".
Or check apache logs to see if you find anything.

Regards

I've checked the httpd.conf, everything is fine as you've described.

In the error.log there is nothing to see.
In the access.log there is no error message.

bathory · 06-10-2008, 06:41 AM

Are you sure you're editing the correct httpd.conf? Because you should at least see a "Forbidden" error or "Internal server error", if apache reads the "AllowOverride Authconfig" directive.
You can leave the "AllowOverride Authconfig", only in the virtualhost part adding

Code:

Order allow,deny
Allow from all

after the directive, to see what happens.

xpucto · 06-10-2008, 08:14 AM

Until now I just looked in the logs from my virtualhost. I found the apache's logs, and it says:

Quote:

[ Jun 10 15:09:00 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/http-apache2 start") ]
Syntax error on line 1218 of /etc/apache2/httpd.conf:
AllowOverride not allowed here
[ Jun 10 15:09:00 Method "start" exited with status 1 ]

I want to apply my .htaccess to the following virtual host:

Quote:

1209 <VirtualHost *>
1210 ServerAdmin myname@website.org
1211
1212 ServerName www.website.org
1213 ServerAlias website.org
1214 DocumentRoot /mydocs
1215 ErrorLog /var/log/website/error.log
1216 TransferLog /var/log/website/access.log
1217
1218 AllowOverride AuthConfig
1219
1220
1221 </VirtualHost>

so why doesn't it accept it?

bathory · 06-10-2008, 08:35 AM

Then you must put a <Directory ...> inside the VirtualHost part:

Code:

<VirtualHost *>
ServerAdmin myname@website.org

ServerName www.website.org
ServerAlias website.org
DocumentRoot /mydocs
ErrorLog /var/log/website/error.log
TransferLog /var/log/website/access.log
<Directory /mydocs>
AllowOverride AuthConfig
/Directory>

</VirtualHost>

xpucto · 06-10-2008, 09:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory

Then you must put a <Directory ...> inside the VirtualHost part:

Code:

<VirtualHost *>
ServerAdmin myname@website.org

ServerName www.website.org
ServerAlias website.org
DocumentRoot /mydocs
ErrorLog /var/log/website/error.log
TransferLog /var/log/website/access.log
<Directory /mydocs>
AllowOverride AuthConfig
/Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Thank you very much! The problem seems to be gone. I have another difficulty though:

Quote:

[ Jun 10 15:57:59 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/http-apache2 start") ]
(125)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address xxx.xxx.xx.xx:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down

I don't get why it has now such a problem...

bathory · 06-11-2008, 01:57 AM

There is something else listening on port 80. Perhaps apache is already started by startup scripts and you're trying to start it again.

Regards

xpucto · 06-12-2008, 04:34 AM

It seemed that even when I diseabled apache, there were still httpd processes. So I just killed them all and restarted apache. Now it works. Thanks a lot for your help!