Question

I need help correcting the Auto-generated twiki.conf for Apache 2.2.3.

I am getting the following error from httpd. Syntax error on line 59 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/twiki.conf Invalid command 'AuthUserFile', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration.

I put the twiki.conf in conf.d which load fine.

Yes, auth_module is commented out because Apache 2 uses authz_host_module instead.

Tis section of twiki.conf is what I am having issues with.

# Password file for TWiki users AuthUserFile /var/www/html/twiki/data/.htpasswd AuthName 'Enter your WikiName: (First name and last name, no space, no dots, capitalized, e.g. JohnSmith). Cancel to register if you do not have one.' AuthType Basic

Thanks

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-- SJoelChaney - 30 Nov 2006

Answer

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To my best knowledge and from what I can see from Googling the authz_host_module is not a replacement of auth_module. It seems the module has been split in more modules.

LoadModule auth_basic_module modules/mod_auth_basic.so
LoadModule authn_file_module modules/mod_authn_file.so
LoadModule authz_host_module modules/mod_authz_host.so 

And you probably need all the 3 new

-- KennethLavrsen - 01 Dec 2006

Thanks my Apache 2.2.3 httpd.conf was lacking auth_basic_module and authn_file_module. Adding these modules fixed authenication issues.

-- SJoelChaney - 01 Dec 2006