On 05/28/2011 02:07 PM, Jeroen Geilman wrote:
On 05/28/2011 08:51 PM, Knute Johnson wrote:I'm having a problem using the Files directive to require authentication on the index.html file. It doesn't work if it is requested with the index URL but does if the URL specifies the file directly. I can't believe that I'm the only person ever to try to do this but maybe I am. So if I request http://localhost/ I get the following error and NO user name/password dialog. 401 Authorization Required Authorization Required This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser doesn't understand how to supply the credentials required. But if I request http://localhost/index.html I get the Authentication Required dialog and can enter the user name and password and then receive the file. I've tested this with FireFox and Chrome. I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 and apache 2.2.16. Here is the access log from the first request 127.0.0.1 - - [28/May/2011:11:31:16 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 401 618 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110422 Ubuntu/10.10 (maverick) Firefox/3.6.17" and the access log from the second request 127.0.0.1 - knute [28/May/2011:11:30:12 -0700] "GET /index.html HTTP/1.1" 200 485 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110422 Ubuntu/10.10 (maverick) Firefox/3.6.17" The error.log is empty.That is not possible; a 4xx error is always logged in the error log.
Why would I make it up. There is nothing in the error log. 401 errors show up in the access log though.
Here is the virtual host configuration file <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost DocumentRoot /var/www<Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory>This does not belong in a vhost.
Except for the Files directives that I added this is unchanged from the install.
<Directory /var/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all # added for testing # any files require group any membershipRequests that hit DirectoryIndex hit this resource block
Then why does it not work? If I request a file that isn't index.html it sends it to me.
<Files index.html> AuthType Basic AuthName "ARCLA Lookers" AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/passwords/arcla.pwd AuthGroupFile /usr/local/apache/passwords/groups Require group lookers players honchosHowever, requests for the exact file resource hit this resource block.</Files> ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.logApache will refuse to run when it cannot write to the error log, so you are likely not looking at the right one.
It writes to the error log file that I am looking at. I can request a non-existent file and the error shows up in the error log just fine.
DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi index.pl index.php index.xhtml index.htmTHIS is the reason the requests behave differently.
Isn't the whole purpose of DirectoryIndex to serve up one of the above files if you request the index? So why doesn't the Files directive work and why does apache return the odd error? How do I make it work?
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