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Re: [biborb-general] authentication
From: |
Guillaume Gardey |
Subject: |
Re: [biborb-general] authentication |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:56:25 +0200 |
sorry, there was a slight mistake in the .htaccess, you need quotes to
define the Authentication message.
So the following lines should be ok :
AuthName "BibORB Restricted Area"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /home/pmartinelli/www/biborb/.htpasswd
require valid-user
Guillaume
Le lundi 17 octobre 2005 à 09:23 -0700, Paul Martinelli a écrit :
> Thanks Guillaume and Dominik for your messages. I
> only want to use apache authentication, so based on
> your suggestions I tried:
>
> 1. In config.php
>
> /**
> * If TRUE, this will disable authentification.
> * All users will have the administrator status
> */
> define("DISABLE_AUTHENTICATION",FALSE);
>
> /**
> * Authentication methods: mysql, files
> * Used if DISABLE_AUTHENTICATION = FALSE
> * define("AUTH_METHOD",'files');
> */
>
> So the biborb specific authentication is commented in
> the last lines above?
>
> 2. in .htaccess
>
> # Uncomment to prevent anyone to access .ht* files
> (.htaccess, .htpasswd...)
> <Files .ht*>
> deny from all
> </Files>
>
> # Uncomment to restrict access using apache
> authentication
> AuthName BibORB Restricted Area
> AuthType Basic
> AuthUserFile /home/pmartinelli/www/biborb/.htpasswd
> require valid-user
>
> Thanks Guillaume for clarifying the meaning of the
> values in .htaccess for Apache.
>
> However, this is still not working for me and visiting
> the biborb url gives me the same error:
>
> Internal Server Error
> The server encountered an internal error or
> misconfiguration and was unable to complete your
> request.
> Please contact the server administrator,
> address@hidden and inform them of the time the
> error occurred, and anything you might have done that
> may have caused the error.
> More information about this error may be available in
> the server error log.
>
>
> Any further pointers greatly appreciated. Thanks so
> far.
>
> PM
>
>
> --- Guillaume Gardey <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > > 3. Modified .htaccess by uncommenting the lines
> > >
> > > <Files .ht*>
> > > deny from all
> > > </Files>
> > >
> > > AuthName BibORB Restricted Area
> > > AuthType Basic
> > > AuthUserFile /path/to/.htpasswd_biborb
> > > require valid-user
> > >
> > > It seems that the problem is I'm not supplying the
> > > right values in the last lines in step 3. My
> > question
> > > then is what value should BibORB (for AuthName)
> > should
> > > be replaced with and what kind of path should be
> > > supplied to AuthUserFile (relative to what)?
> >
> > AuthName is just the message that will be displayed
> > when accessing
> > Biborb. You can set it to whatever value you want.
> >
> > AuthUserFile should be set to filesystem path of the
> > .htpasswd file. For
> > example, on my linux laptop it is located in
> > /var/www/biborb/.htpasswd,
> > so this is the value of AuthUserFile.
> >
> > The apache authentication (htpasswd) is different
> > from the file
> > authentication of Biborb. If you only want the
> > apache authentication
> > there is no need to activate the file
> > authentication.
> >
> > Don't hesitate to ask if you need more help.
> >
> > All the best
> > Guillaume
> >
>
>
>
>
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