Question

I have a working Twiki installation with no authentication. I have activated basic authentication via instructions in the TWikiInstallationGuide (including renaming the access file to .htaccess). With authentication on, I get these errors instead of responses:

[error] [client 169.37.104.14] couldn't spawn child process: c:/work/twiki/bin/view

When I rename the .htaccess out of the way to turn off authentication, everything works again. The paths in the various files, including the .htaccess file, all seem correct (the Twiki directory is c:\work\twiki). I've also tried using both Unix and NT-style slashes in the directory path.

How can I get basic authentication to work? Thanks.

• htaccess: .htaccess file that is not working
• access.conf: <-- Apache access configuration.
• httpd.conf: <-- Apache http configuration.
• TWiki.cfg: <-- Twiki configuration

Environment

-- ChristopherGraziano - 12 Jul 2005

Answer

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This is an apache problem, by the sound of it. Try asking in #apache on IRC, or one of the mailing lists.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 19 Jul 2005