Question

Hi,

I've enabled authentication to be able to track who has performed changes to the Wiki. When adding a user, the .htpasswd is properly updated. When I edit a page, the basic authentication takes place, but seems to fail, and I'm redirected to the oops page.

I've run the testenv program, and it seems happy.

Environment

-- TWikiGuest - 13 Jan 2004

I think I'm having the same problem as TWikiGuest in one of the previous posts. I'll attach my .htaccess, TWiki.cfg and output from testenv.

-- MarcusHirt - 13 Jan 2004

Answer

Check the Apache error log to be sure, but your .htaccess appears to have a typo where it says AuthUserFile /home/wiki/data/.htpasswd - shouldn't this be /home/twiki/data/...?

Thanks for following the SupportGuidelines - I think this explains why authentication isn't working, since it never sees the password file and hence nobody can log on.

-- RichardDonkin - 13 Jan 2004

It was the typo. How embarrasing. Thank you!

-- MarcusHirt - 13 Jan 2004