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Re: [PLUG] Apache 2.x Authentication No Work


PHP has nothing to do with .htaccess.  I am using PHP though.  There were no old config files.  It was a clean install.  Thanks for the feedback.

Michael

Paul wrote:
What does PHP have to do with .htaccess?  Just focus on Apache.  Maybe the old config files are still there and confusing the new Apache.


lists wrote:

Anyone and everyone's thoughts or knowledge would sincerely be appreciated here...  I installed Apache 2.0.40 along with MySQL 3.23.52, PHP 4.2.2, and mod_perl-2 on SuSE 7.3.  Everything seemed to work perfectly.  But, I could not get authentication to work on Apache 2.0.40 using .htaccess files or using the directory method.  I feel like I read too much yeaterday in order to get this working.  I spent more than 10 hours looking for a reason it wouldn't work, including reinstalling/upgrading to Apache 2.0.43 and PHP 4.2.3 (only because PHP 2.0.43 is the latest stable release). Apache 2.0.43 made no difference in getting authentication to work.  I'm curious if anyone has got authentication working on this release.  I think something has been changed in mod_auth.  So, knowing that authentication works using .htaccess files on Apache 1.3.x, which I have running on Windows 2000, I decided to remove Apache 2.0.43 and PHP 4.2.3 and try Apache 1.3.27.  I found that installing Apache 1.3.27 combined with PHP 4.2.3 is flawless and authentication using the directory method works perfectly!  What the f*ck!?  I'd like to kick the sh*t out of someone for distributing flawed software.  I appreciate the free software, but, for God's sake, make sure it works so people aren't spending hours on end trying to get something to work that won't.  Clear documentation based on certain configuration and usage objectives would be great too.  The perfect instructions I found were at the end of the Install file, but authentication using the directory method versus the .htaccess file method is hidden.  I guess since I've been into open-source software for less than a year I've got some lessons to learn...seriously.  If it's my fault, which I cannot imagine since I was able to get authentication working in just minutes using Apache 1.3.27, I retract all of the above negative statements and apologize.  If not, I think Apache owes everyone a public apology.


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