Thanks for the suggestion, but switching the order of the location tags didn't work either... Kind Regards, Jan On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 09:09 -0500, Brian Mearns wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Jan Hoskens <jan.hoskens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > After some digging in the Apache docs I managed to come up with the > > following configuration snippet to secure my whole server excluding one > > directory: > > > > <Location /proxyserver> > > Order deny,allow > > Allow from all > > Satisfy any > > ProxyPass http://someproxyserver.com > > ProxyPassReverse http://someproxyserver.com > > </Location> > > > > <Location /> > > AuthType Basic > > AuthName "myserver" > > AuthUserFile /path/to/userfile > > AuthGroupFile /path/to/groupfile > > Require group mygroup > > </Location> > > > > Now for some reason the "/proxyserver" location still asks for a > > user/password, but allows entry nonetheless. I get a pop-up three times > > which I can just cancel and then I can access the page. > > > > Any idea how to avoid this? I need to access that location > > programmatically and I get confronted with an authorization which I > > don't want to handle in my code... > > > > Kind Regards, > > Jan > > > > The only thing I can think of is reversing the orders of the Location > tags, i.e., have the more global one come first. > > -Brian > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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