Question

Well, I was doing so well for a non-expert, Twiki is downloaded and running just fine, testenv all happy, etc., TPreferences updated...

But the server is public facing so I need to enable auth.

I followed the steps in the Install guide to rename the .htaccess, replace the FILE and URL strings, etc.

Then I restarted Apache (not clear if this was necessary)

But... I still have full access to the Webs as "Guest" user, it's not asking me to log in at all.

The current .htaccess is really just the disti file with the two strings globally replaced, here are a couple of sample lines...

AuthUserFile /home/groups/home/web/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

ErrorDocument 401 web3.wizards.co.uk/twiki/bin/oops/TWiki/TWikiRegistration?template=oopsauth

I guess I've missed something elemental but I can't spot the silly mistake.

Environment

-- ChrisComley - 04 Apr 2005

Answer

What does your httpd.conf file look like? Especially the AllowOverride directive for the bin dir is of interest. (If the AllowOverride directive is not set, .htaccess doesn't take much effect :-)).

-- SteffenPoulsen - 04 Apr 2005

as an example - from the debian package's (in unstable only ) apache conf file,

# Added for twiki
Alias /twiki/pub /var/www/twiki/pub
Alias /twiki/data /var/lib/twiki/data
Redirect /twiki/index.html http://sven/cgi-bin/twiki/view
#Redirect /twiki/ http://sven/cgi-bin/twiki/view

# make sure this is even needed, and ref the doc section needing it
<Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin/twiki/>
    Options +ExecCGI
    SetHandler cgi-script
    AllowOverride all
    Allow from all
</Directory>

# End twiki Configuration Block

-- SvenDowideit - 04 Apr 2005

Ahha! That fixed it, thanks very much.

-- ChrisComley - 05 Apr 2005

Except...

Now I need to add users to .htpasswd, which I presumed I could do using the TWikiRegistration page after I'd copied the "TWikiRegistrationPub" over the default page as per the documents.

But when I try to run it I get an error "Already Registered". Seems to be confusing my registration here with my new local installation. Or are Twiki Registrations supposed to be Global in scope?

-- ChrisComley - 05 Apr 2005

Make a clean install and try again - and let things progress in sync. Your problem is probably, that the users you added in the first round hasn't been deleted from TWikiUsers before your second registration try (with .htaccess enabled).

Just shooting blindly here .. if you don't want to start over, you can add the users which are in TWikiUsers - but not in .htpasswd - manually, using the htpasswd utility.

-- SteffenPoulsen - 05 Apr 2005

Aha! That did it. I could have sworn I had not yet done a TWikiRegistration on my own server, only on the twiki.org server so I could lodge this qyuestion, but indeed, when I clicked into TWikiUsers, tehre I was. So I did a manual htpasswd generation and added the line to the file for the WikiName and bingo!

Thanks for the input.

-- ChrisComley - 07 Apr 2005