Hi all, It took me a long time but I was finally able to compile Apache with DBD and get it "working". That is: it seems to authenticate (no errors indicating otherwise) but it reports an error about an Authoritative handler. Searching around to resolve that I was pointed to the AuthBasicAuthoritative directive, which should be On according to this post: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-users/200604.mbox/%3ce498c1660604230723q7ce2ebe9wfd2c4077c0b3524c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx%3e Below is the config for the "test" directory and the error I get. As you can see, AuthBasicAuthoritative is not set so should default to On. (No .htaccess files in use.) I tried both settings, but the same error keeps showing up. Can someone please point me to what I'm overlooking? Thanks, Rob ==== httpd.conf ==== DBDriver mysql DBDParams "host=<dbserver> dbname=<dbauth> user=<user> pass=<pass>" DBDMin 1 DBDKeep 2 DBDMax 10 DBDExptime 60 <Directory /path/to/test> DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.html.var AuthName "TEST area, please logon..." AuthType Basic AuthBasicProvider dbd AuthDBDUserPWQuery "select encrypt(user_passwd) from users where user_name=%s" Require group testusers Options Indexes IndexOptions FancyIndexing FoldersFirst NameWidth=60 </Directory> ==== error_log ==== [Wed Aug 09 15:46:31 2006] [error] [client 193.173.147.3] access to /test failed, reason: require directives present and no Authoritative handler. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx