Actually the following is not true. I'll update at some point.

This was driving me mad, so now I think I have solved it(but not tested) I thought I'd share. My problem was that Apache htpasswd was capable of generating MD5 passwds instead of plaintext ones but Apache server seemed to be always expecting plaintext.

It turns out that to get this to work you have to tell apache to use mod_auth_digest over mod_auth as mod_auth defaults to plaintext on Windows and crypt on UNIX. Furthermore, mod_auth is default in httpd.conf.

See: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_auth_digest.html and: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/1527/8/

• TWiki version: all
• Web server: Apache
• Server OS: Windows

-- MartinCleaver - 10 Mar 2001

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