Hi, I tried to change the AuthName but I got the same behavior: Forbidden The methid is GET (since I am only accessing the page from a browser): "GET /svn/ABC/XYZ/123 HTTP/1.0" 403 221 thanks in advance --- On Fri, 21/8/09, André Warnier <aw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: André Warnier <aw@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: 'require' keyword > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Friday, 21 August, 2009, 3:17 PM > Melanie Pfefer wrote: > > Hi > > > > I meant Eric's suggestion. > > > > But, I sent the email too fast. In fact, I am not > prompted for authentication when I create a new and seperate > location even though the Require user was put for that new > location. > > > > In fact I just noticed that I have also: > > > > <Location /svn/ABC/> > > with the same ldap settings (require valid-user) > > > Getting back to some basics : > With "Basic Authentication" (which is what you are using, > despite the fact that your back-end is an LDAP server), the > directive "AuthName" is important. > Basically, any Location sections for which you use the same > AuthName, is considered by the server and the browser as > "one domain", and an authentication for one of these > Locations is valid for all the Locations that have the same > AuthName. > That is why, if a user authenticates once for a specific > Location that has an "Authname X", and then accesses another > Location that also has an "AuthName X", the user will not be > asked to authenticate again, and his previous authentication > will be "re-used". > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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