Thanks a lot. That was it. I was using notepad. I switched to wordpad and now it works. -----Original Message----- From: André Warnier [mailto:aw@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 2:51 PM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Digest Authentication Tirtza Bernstein wrote: > Hi, > I have basic authentication working for svn on apache 2.2. When I try to switch it to digest authenticated it does not work. > > Configuration with Digest Authentication: > <Location /svn> > DAV svn > SVNListParentPath on > SVNParentPath C:\server\repos > AuthType Digest > AuthName “Repos” > AuthDigestDomain /svn > AuthUserFile C:\test\ auth_file > Require valid-user > </Location> > > Error Log: > [Thu Mar 12 09:24:03 2009] [error] [client 79.180.232.71] Digest: user `user1' in realm `\x93Repos\x94' not found: /svn/root/proj/ > > I added user1 to the digest file with this command: > C:\test >htdigest -c svn_authd_file "Repos" user1 > Adding password for user1 in realm ΓÇ£ReposΓÇ¥. > New password: ******** > Re-type new password: ******** > > I tried it without the quotes around realm as well > > Configuration with Basic Authentication: > <Location /svn> > DAV svn > SVNListParentPath on > SVNParentPath C:\server\repos > AuthType Basic > AuthName “Repos” > AuthUserFile C:\test\auth_file > Require valid-user > </Location> > > Any help would be appreciated. > I see strange characters, in your Apache logfile and in your email, as quotes around "Repos". \x93 and \x94 (as indicated in the logfile), are not standard double-quotes. Their byte value would tend to indicate that they are some kind of character > 128 decimal ASCII. I believe this may have to do with your issue. What editor are you using to edit your configuration file ? --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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