Re: [users@httpd] Configuring Password Protection

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On Tuesday 25 July 2006 12:43, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> Using Apache-2.2.2 on a FreeBSD-6.1 STABLE system.
>
> I recently installed 'postfixadmin' on to my system. The documentation
> said to insert the following into the httpd.conf file:
>
> <Directory "/usr/local/www/postfixadmin">
>          Options Indexes
>          AllowOverride AuthConfig
> </Directory>

That's rather silly.  The only reason to AllowOverride anything at all
is to empower users to vary the configuration for their own
directories.  But that doesn't look like a user's directory!

> After doing so and restarting Apache, I was unable to find the file. I
> then added the following to the httpd.conf document:
>
> Alias /postfixadmin/ "/usr/local/www/postfixadmin/"

If your documentroot is /usr/local/www/ then that's an alias pointing to
itself (like a symlink to itself).

> After restart Apache, I received this message when I attempted to reach
> the site:
>
> Forbidden
>
> You don't have permission to access /postfixadmin/ on this server.

And what's in the error log?

-- 
Nick Kew

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