Apache Problem. But Revelant.

Forum: HyperNews Security
Date: 2000, Nov 22
From: E. Charters

Apache Problem Actually.
The .htpasswd file gets changed but does not work. htpasswd will work independently and will change the .htpasswd file. authentication will also not work either with the same .htaccess file being used in another cgi-bin directory. edit-member.pl and setup-form.pl seem to work. the error is: "network read error and file is unexpected network read error, connection aborted, unable to access document."
The version of HN is 1.10 and Apache is 1.3.6 Os is slackware Linux 7.0 running 2.2.13 kernel htpasswd was replaced with a version from Slackware 4.0 because the new one did not work. htpasswd seems to work and makes a file. It is placed on the path in /usr/bin
The directories in Apache files look like this

<Directory "/home/Hyperdocs"> Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymlinks AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>

The .htaccess files are configured from the apache examples and require a valid-user all directories are protected with .htaccess files that use them and those directories are mentioned in httpd.conf explicitly as above. This includes the .scripts directorywhich is not script aliased but optioned ExecCGI.
So where do I start short of getting a PhD in obscure debuggerama?
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