Question

I've gone through the installation instructions and the basic authentication instructions, but I'm having trouble getting past the authentication dialog. I've added a couple users. They show up correctly in the .htpasswd file. When I go to edit a page, I get the authentication dialog, but it always tells me my password is incorrect.

I looked through the other answered questions relating to authentication. As a result, I've tried using htpasswd to change the password for a user. This made no difference. I checked and double-checked the .htpasswd path in my .htaccess file. I also checked the .htpasswd file permissions. Everything looks dandy.

Here is the entry in the Apache access-log after a failed authentication:

[IP Address] - EricRunquist [01/Jan/2002:13:43:19 -0600] "GET /cgi-bin/edit/Main/EricRunquist HTTP/1.0" 401 2352

Here is my .htaccess file (from /home/foobar/www/cgi-bin):

Redirect /TWiki/index.html http://www.foobar.com/cgi-bin/view

AuthUserFile /home/foobar/TWiki/data/.htpasswd
AuthName ByPassword
AuthType Basic

SetHandler cgi-script

ErrorDocument 401 /cgi-bin/oops/TWiki/TWikiRegistration?template=oopsauth


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Thanks for any help! EricRunquist

• TWiki version: 20010901
• Web server: Apache/1.3.19
• Server OS: RedHat 6.2, or 6.1 - not sure
• Web browser: Netscape Navigator 4.7
• Client OS: Win95

-- EricRunquist - 30 Dec 2001

Answer

Not sure what is wrong. Double check the case, is it /home/foobar/TWiki/data/.htpasswd or /home/foobar/twiki/data/.htpasswd? Also, check the Apache error log.

-- PeterThoeny - 06 Jan 2002

It turned out that authentication won't work for me if the htpasswd file isn't in a parent directory of the .htaccess file. When the password file is in /home/foobar it works. When it is in /home/foobar/TWiki/data it does not work. I made sure the .htaccess file had the right settings and the directory permissions were identical.

-- EricRunquist - 17 Jan 2002

I had a inconvenient with authentication using Red Hat 6.1. My problem was caused simply because I didn't read carefully that it was needed to copy by hand the encrypted password to the /twiki/directory/data/.htaccess file. I don't know if this is your situation.

-- PabloChamorro - 18 Jan 2002