[users@httpd] PCRE issue with Apache 2.0.54 (Debian)

Brad Greenlee <brad@xxxxxxxxxx> · Sat, 13 May 2006 07:59:18 -0700

Hi all. I'm using the standard Debian 2.0.54-5 package and PCRE seems to 

be not working--or I'm doing something wrong. I've been banging my head 

against the wall on this problem for hours and I'm starting to get sore.

I'm trying to have everything on one site be protected with basic auth, 

except for requests starting with /foo. This should work, but it doesn't:

<LocationMatch "^/(?!foo)">
  AuthType Basic
  AuthName "Development Site"
  AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/auth/dev-passwd
  Require valid-user
</LocationMatch>

It doesn't give me any errors...it just *always matches*. I've tried a 

lot of other combinations, to no avail:

  /(?!foo)
  /(?!foo).*
  \/(?!foo)
  /(?<!foo)
  etc.

If I just do "^/foo", it does match only on /foo and not on the rest of 

the site, but that's the opposite of what I want.

Any ideas? It seems to me that PCRE is just not installed, but this is 

the standard Debian package and I haven't seen any other posts 

complaining about this.

I've included info about my installation below.

Cheers,

Brad

$ /usr/sbin/apache2 -V
Server version: Apache/2.0.54
Server built:   Sep  5 2005 11:15:09
Server's Module Magic Number: 20020903:9
Architecture:   32-bit
Server compiled with....
 -D APACHE_MPM_DIR="server/mpm/prefork"
 -D APR_HAS_SENDFILE
 -D APR_HAS_MMAP
 -D APR_HAVE_IPV6 (IPv4-mapped addresses enabled)
 -D APR_USE_SYSVSEM_SERIALIZE
 -D APR_USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZE
 -D SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT
 -D APR_HAS_OTHER_CHILD
 -D AP_HAVE_RELIABLE_PIPED_LOGS
 -D HTTPD_ROOT=""
 -D SUEXEC_BIN="/usr/lib/apache2/suexec2"
 -D DEFAULT_PIDLOG="/var/run/httpd.pid"
 -D DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD="logs/apache_runtime_status"
 -D DEFAULT_LOCKFILE="/var/run/accept.lock"
 -D DEFAULT_ERRORLOG="logs/error_log"
 -D AP_TYPES_CONFIG_FILE="/etc/apache2/mime.types"
 -D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="/etc/apache2/apache2.conf"

$ /usr/sbin/apache2 -l
Compiled in modules:
  core.c
  mod_access.c
  mod_auth.c
  mod_log_config.c
  mod_logio.c
  mod_env.c
  mod_setenvif.c
  prefork.c
  http_core.c
  mod_mime.c
  mod_status.c
  mod_autoindex.c
  mod_negotiation.c
  mod_dir.c
  mod_alias.c
  mod_so.c

$ sudo dpkg -l | grep apache2

ii  apache2        2.0.54-5       next generation, scalable, extendable 

web se

ii  apache2-common 2.0.54-5       next generation, scalable, extendable 

web se

ii  apache2-mpm-pr 2.0.54-5       traditional model for Apache2
ii  apache2-utils  2.0.54-5       utility programs for webservers
ii  libapache2-mod 2.4.2-6        FastCGI module for Apache2

ii  libapache2-mod 4.3.10-16      server-side, HTML-embedded scripting 

languag

ii  libapache2-svn 1.1.4-2        apache modules for Subversion (aka. svn)

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