Found it. I was mixing Location and Directory directives. The following does exactly what I want: <Location "/"> Allow from all AuthzLDAPAuthoritative on AuthBasicProvider ldap AuthName "xxxxxxx" AuthType Basic AuthLDAPBindDN xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx AuthLDAPBindPassword xxxxxxxxxx AuthLDAPURL xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Require valid-user </Location> <Location "/protected"> Require ldap-group cn=group1,.... </Location> <Location "/protected2"> Require ldap-group cn=group2,..... </Location> Nico On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 16:47 +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: > To answer my own questions partially: > > - yes it's possible to turn on authentication for the whole server by > creating a <Location "/"> section and putting the Auth... statements in > there. Unfortunately I'm unable to require different types of > authentication in different parts of the site. If I put 'require > valid-user' in '<Location "/">' all valid users can access all parts of > the site even if I put and extra 'require group...' statement in a > specific section. This is clearly not what I want :-( > > - the fact that firefox asks for the password multiple times when > started with a multiple pages opened appears to be a firefox issue > indeed > > Nico > > On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 13:42 +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have an internal apache 2.2 server that serves a number of > > applications (trac, subversion, twiki, ...). Every application on the > > webserver requires LDAP authentication. To do this I added a > > 'AuthLDAP...' sections to each '<Location>' section in the apache config > > files. Unfortunately this means: > > 1. my LDAP configuration is scattered all over the config files; > > 2. when I start firefox it asks me a username and password for every > > page I had open from the same server (not sure whether this is actually > > a firefox issue or due to the separate authentication section per web > > app). > > > > I'd like to change the config of the apache server so it requires a > > valid LDAP authentication for any page you try to use on the server and > > then only add group restrictions per specific web app. The idea is that > > I have: > > > > AuthzLDAPAuthoritative off > > AuthBasicProvider ldap > > AuthName "Web app server" > > AuthType Basic > > AuthLDAPBindDN ... > > AuthLDAPBindPassword xxxxxxxxxxx > > AuthLDAPURL "ldaps://ad.mydomain.com:636/ou..." > > > > Require valid-user > > > > only once in 1 central place and then add: > > > > Require ldap-group .... > > > > for every section. > > > > The question is: > > 1. will this work? > > 2. where do I put the AuthLDAP... section? > > I figure if I put the AuthLDAP... section in my <Directory > > "/www/htdocs"> section (=root of the webserver) it will only protect the > > static pages in the htdocs directory (e.g. https://server/index.html) > > but it will not protect the web apps (e.g. https://server/trac/mytrac) > > which are actually coming from completely different parts of the > > filesystem, right? > > > > > > I hope this makes sense to anybody :-) > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Nico > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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