Michael Leone on Thu, 17 Oct 2002 13:20:05 -0400


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


lists said:
>
> PHP has nothing to do with .htaccess.  I am using PHP though.

Yes, I know. My point was that it might be a bug in the interaction
between Apache 2.0 and some of it's modules. I only used the bug in the
interaction between Apache and PHP as an example.

>
> 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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