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

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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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