[RndTbl] Apache/SSL

[Raymond J. Henry]

> According to Raymond J. Henry:
> > Anyone with Apache/SSL experience care to lend a helping hand?
> >
> > I've got Apache compiled with mod_ssl, and it seems to be working fine.
In
> > fact, I know that part is working fine. Where my trouble lies is with
> > forcing it to look look for the userID/password to access the directory.
>
> Which, by the way, has nothing to do with the SSL support.

No, but my understanding was that it would better protect the userID/PW as
it was passed to the server. No?

And the following suggestions still didn't result in a userID/PW prompt....
:/


>
> > It allows any conenction to view the page, without prompting for
userID/PW.
> > httpd.conf points traffic for hermes.manitobamall.net to
> > /www/htdocs/manitobamall/.
> >
> > Looked around for everything I could find on the 'Net, and tried all
> > variations of examples, still the same.
> > ____________________
> >
> > /www/htdocs/test/.htaccess:
> >
> > AuthUserFile /www/pw/.file-password
> > AuthGroupFile /dev/null
>
> I think you can just leave out the AuthGroupFile directive if you're not
> actually specifying a group file.
>
> > AuthName "TestPage"
>
> Set the AuthName directive to a name or string that will make sense in
> the userid/password prompt in the pop-up dialog box.
>
> > AuthType Basic
> >
> > <Limit GET POST PUT>
> > require user test
> > </Limit>
>
> We usually just specify the following...
>
> require valid-user
>
> ... without using the Limit tags.  This will allow any valid userid that's
> found in the specified password file.
>
> > /www/pw/.filepassword:
> >
> > test: 38sqpB6MNb7BA
>
> If that's white space after the colon, you'll need to remove that.  In
fact,
> this may be your only real problem.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
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