[thelist] locking cgi-bin

[Richard Bennett]

Hi,
Thanks Dave and Michael for the ideas.
I tried adding this to httpd.conf:

<Directory /var/www/cgi-bin>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

and had to wait a few days for the server to be reset, but it didn't help.
The current setting was:
<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>

So I think all directories should be covered by that.

If I put one .htaccess in the /var/www directory (root owned currently)
would that cover
/var/www/cgi-bin
and
/var/www/htdocs
?
(instead of having two .htaccess' like now)

<Dave said:
<What happens if you change
<AuthUserFile /var/www/cgi-bin/.htpasswd
<to
<AuthUserFile /cgi-bin/.htpasswd
That didn't help either.
What I have at the moment is:

AuthUserFile /var/www/htdocs/.htpasswd

Which means two .htaccess' use the same password-file. the one in
/var/www/htdocs is fine, the one in /var/www/cgi-bin is not.

Any more ideas on this ?

Thanks,
Richard.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Imamura" <gte255n at prism.gatech.edu>
>
> Sounds like the directory may not be set up to allow overrides. Try adding
> this to your server config:
>
> <Directory /var/www/cgi-bin>
>   AllowOverride All
> </Directory>