Apache Basic Authentication not working in Gentoo

**libregeek** · 03-14-2006, 10:27 AM

Hello all,
I am a newbie in apache, less than 2 weeks of experience. I am
trying to protect one of my directory in the web server with Basic
authentication. I am using Gentoo Linux with apache-2.0.55. I see that auth_module is loaded as a Module. I have configured the Virtual Host like this. The problem is that the login dialog box never appears in the browser and the web page is immediately displayed. The configuration I used is (from etc/apache2/httpd.conf):

Code:

user backuppc
group backuppc
<VirtualHost anaconda.localhost.com:80>
       DocumentRoot /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/BackupPC
       ServerAdmin root@anaconda.localhost.com
       ServerName anaconda.localhost.com
       ErrorLog logs/anaconda.localhost.com-error_log
       CustomLog logs/anaconda.localhost.comaccess_log common
       <Directory /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/BackupPC>
               Options FollowSymLinks
               Options +ExecCGI
               AuthName "Tiger Login:"
               AuthType Basic
               AuthUserFile /usr/local/etc/htpasswd
               Require user libregeek
       </Directory>
</VirtualHost

I am able to run the same setup in my Fedora Core 4 server. But it fails in the Gentoo Server. I can't get what had gone wrong. I searched the MARC archives, but couldn't find a workable solution.
Please help me. I am in great trouble.

I can't find anything wrong in either syslog or apache log. Any help
would be appreciable.

regards
libregeek

**Compunuts** · 03-14-2006, 06:04 PM

Originally Posted by libregeek

The configuration I used is (from etc/apache2/httpd.conf):

Apache2 no longer use httpd.conf as configuration file. It makes use of sites-enabled. We have a basic apache configuration in our PET area. Follow that.

And then put in your dir setting to the config file that you use. For example, your site is put in at etc/apache2/sites-enabled/your-site then put that in that file and see what happened?

I will also take a look at it when I have more time. But this should get you started to the right direction.

HTH ...

**Compunuts** · 03-15-2006, 03:26 AM

I tested it and it worked.

My directory is at

Code:

compunuts@sienna64:/var/www/test-dir$ pwd
/var/www/test-dir
compunuts@sienna64:/var/www/test-dir$

My htpasswd file is at

Code:

compunuts@sienna64:/usr/sbin$ ls -l | grep compunuts
-rw-r--r--  1 root root      19 2006-03-14 19:08 compunuts
compunuts@sienna64:/usr/sbin$

And finally, in my "/etc/apache2/site-enabled/compunuts" site config file

Code:

       <Directory /var/www/test-dir/>
               Options FollowSymLinks
               Options +ExecCGI
               AuthName "Sienna Login:"
               AuthType Basic
               AuthUserFile /usr/sbin/compunuts
               Require user test
       </Directory>

And it gave me the login prompt.

I'm running Ubuntu 5.10 and Apache 2.0.54 .

HTH ....