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By david ·
Before anything else, hello to all, as I am new in this forum...

I'm trying to install authentication on Apache and I've followed all steps from the howto at Apache site (http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/auth.html).

My httpd.conf has the following configuration:

Alias /ftp "/ftp/mp3/"

<Directory "/ftp/mp3">
Options MultiViews
AllowOverride AuthConfig
AuthType Digest
AuthName "GSXR Server"
AuthUserFile /var/www/passwords
AuthGroupFile /var/www/groups
Require group GroupName
Order deny,allow
</Directory>

Both groups and passwords files are placed in the right directory and group named GroupName is created and users have their respective paswords in the passwords file, created with htpasswd /var/www/passwords user_name.

When I try to access the folder I want to protect, the login window pops up but, after filling user name and password, I always get the same error message:

Erro interno do Servidor!
O servidor encontrou um erro interno e n?o foi poss?vel completar sua requisi??o. O servidor est? sobrecarregado ou existe um erro em um script CGI.

Se voc? acredita ter encontrado um problema no servidor, por favor entre em contato com o webmaster.

Error 500
213.228.144.12
Apache/2.0.47 (Red Hat Linux)

Meantime, at apache log, I see the following:

[Tue Feb 17 01:30:15 2004] [crit] [client 213.228.144.12] configuration error: couldn't check user. No user file?: /ftp

I've searched the net and don't know what else to do in order to solve this item, but I have the feeling that some detail should be missing in apache's howto.

I do thank in advance to whomever may help me.

Regards to all
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David Pires

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Just a thought.

by JIM-H In reply to Authentication with Apach ...

Hello David,

Welcome to the forum.

Great detail on the problem; I'm not an Apache expert but I'll give this one a shot.

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- View your pssword file to make sure you have users. ( cat /var/www/passwords ) The format should be "username:password". The passwords will probably be encrypted and this is preferred.
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- View your group file to make sure your group is setup correctly. ( cat /var/www/groups ) The format here should be something like this all in one line, "GroupName: username#1 username#2 username#3 etc...". You specified this group in the http.conf file with line "Require group GroupName".
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- Make sure your Web Server can view these password and group files. This can be done like this: ( ls -al /var/www/passwords) and ( ls -al /var/www/groups ). You should keep the access to the files VERY minimal. A common setting, where "nobody" is the group of your web server, is something like "chown root:nobody path/to/password_files" and "chmod 640 /path/to/password_files".
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Hope it helps,
Jim

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