Very Computer

by **Tom Halliga** » Wed, 28 Oct 1998 04:00:00

One of the colocation customers of the ISP I am working for is having
little problem. He has set up a restricted directory on his apache 1.3.0
webserver using .htaccess . It works in such that without a proper
username and password you can not get in, but Netscape and Lynx ask the
user to authenticate twice whereas IE 4 does not. The box is running
Freebsd 2.2.7. Also it looks like the normal admin of the box has created
a symlink to the ServerRoot directory from another location on the box. I
have checked apache.org and freebsd's mailing list archives for mention of
this problem and have not come up with anything that lokks exactly on.
Since this is a minor problem I thought I would ask here before really
beating my head against the wall.

TIA

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Tom Halligan ABSnet Internet Services

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by **Tom Halliga** » Wed, 28 Oct 1998 04:00:00

Right after I posted this I checked the index.html file they had put
in the directory. It was created with Frontpage and had some silly <meta>
tags once removed evrything was fine. Sorry to bother you all. BTW opening
a file created by Frontpage with vi is not for the faint of heart.

> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 10:45:11 -0500

> Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
> Subject: Apache .htaccess Netscape Problem

> One of the colocation customers of the ISP I am working for is having
> little problem. He has set up a restricted directory on his apache 1.3.0
> webserver using .htaccess . It works in such that without a proper
> username and password you can not get in, but Netscape and Lynx ask the
> user to authenticate twice whereas IE 4 does not. The box is running
> Freebsd 2.2.7. Also it looks like the normal admin of the box has created
> a symlink to the ServerRoot directory from another location on the box. I
> have checked apache.org and freebsd's mailing list archives for mention of
> this problem and have not come up with anything that lokks exactly on.
> Since this is a minor problem I thought I would ask here before really
> beating my head against the wall.

> TIA

> ------------------------------------------------
> Tom Halligan ABSnet Internet Services

> ------------------------------------------------

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Tom Halligan ABSnet Internet Services

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by **Tom Halliga** » Wed, 28 Oct 1998 04:00:00

I was wrong it is still happening. Well I am fresh out of ideas. I shut
down and restarted Netscape to the clear the cache to test my fix and it
seemd to work. Than when I tried from someone elses machiene who has never
been to the site it still happens

> Right after I posted this I checked the index.html file they had put
> in the directory. It was created with Frontpage and had some silly <meta>
> tags once removed evrything was fine. Sorry to bother you all. BTW opening
> a file created by Frontpage with vi is not for the faint of heart.

> > Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 10:45:11 -0500

> > Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
> > Subject: Apache .htaccess Netscape Problem

> > One of the colocation customers of the ISP I am working for is having
> > little problem. He has set up a restricted directory on his apache 1.3.0
> > webserver using .htaccess . It works in such that without a proper
> > username and password you can not get in, but Netscape and Lynx ask the
> > user to authenticate twice whereas IE 4 does not. The box is running
> > Freebsd 2.2.7. Also it looks like the normal admin of the box has created
> > a symlink to the ServerRoot directory from another location on the box. I
> > have checked apache.org and freebsd's mailing list archives for mention of
> > this problem and have not come up with anything that lokks exactly on.
> > Since this is a minor problem I thought I would ask here before really
> > beating my head against the wall.

> > TIA

> > ------------------------------------------------
> > Tom Halligan ABSnet Internet Services

> > ------------------------------------------------

> ------------------------------------------------
> Tom Halligan ABSnet Internet Services

> ------------------------------------------------

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Tom Halligan ABSnet Internet Services

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by **Marc Slemk** » Wed, 28 Oct 1998 04:00:00

Quote:> One of the colocation customers of the ISP I am working for is having
>little problem. He has set up a restricted directory on his apache 1.3.0
>webserver using .htaccess . It works in such that without a proper
>username and password you can not get in, but Netscape and Lynx ask the
>user to authenticate twice whereas IE 4 does not. The box is running
>Freebsd 2.2.7. Also it looks like the normal admin of the box has created
>a symlink to the ServerRoot directory from another location on the box. I
>have checked apache.org and freebsd's mailing list archives for mention of
>this problem and have not come up with anything that lokks exactly on.
>Since this is a minor problem I thought I would ask here before really
>beating my head against the wall.

You are probably accessing a directory without a trailing '/',
then getting redirected to a differnet hostname (different than the
one you used, but for the same server) with trail trailing '/', which
is in a different authentication realm and requires you to reauthenticate.

Watch the URL closely as you access it and see exactly what URL you
type in, and what URL you end up viewing.