Question

Hello,

I am trying to run the configure script via my url. However, it wants me to enter a username and password. What should this be? It's not taking my unix username and password...

Since I am attemtping a non-root installation, I suspect I need to bootstrap this somehow that otherwise a root-based installation would take care of.

I am accessing a user directory only so I don't have access to the actual server apache's running on.

Environment

-- JasonBrooks - 04 Jun 2008

Answer

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Step 8 in the basic configuration alludes that just running the configuration will generate the necessary .htpasswd file. This is not the case, as I needed this file to exist already. Thus, I needed a means to "bootstrap" this system.

Here are my steps:

• In the twiki/bin/.htaccess.txt file are the following separate lines:
  • AuthUserFile {DataDir}/.htpasswd
  • Require user {Administrators}

1. use "htpasswd" to generate the .htpasswd file
   • eg: htpasswd -c ...twiki/data/.htpasswd jason0
2. Set the {DataDir} part to <path>/twiki/data/.htpasswd.
3. change the line "Require user {Administrators}" to "Require user jason0"
4. connect to http://<Hostname>/twiki/bin/configure

-- JasonBrooks - 04 Jun 2008