[svlug] Apache still asks for password

Skip Evans skip at penguinsites.com
Thu Mar 22 19:22:15 PST 2012



On 03/22/2012 09:39 PM, Edu Carneiro wrote:
> Hi Skip,
>
> If you do a 'wget' of the site do you still get the 401 response? I 
> assume you do.
This time I did 'wget demo.solomomenu.com' I got the response I was 
expecting.

That is a public domain, by the way. If you guys hit it what do you get? 
Do you get asked to authenticate or get a jQuery Mobile page?
>
> So in which case, here are some things to look at:
> 1) Authentication defined somewhere in the httpd.conf
I've looked. Don't this so.
> 2) Server alias defined in httpd.conf
No.
> 3) Symlink in the directory level
I removed that from the VirtualHost entry, but still get asked to 
authenticate.
>
> Hope it helps.
> -- 
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> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Robert Hajime Lanning 
> <lanning at lanning.cc> wrote:
>
>     On 03/22/12 19:16, Skip Evans wrote:
>     > Hey all,
>     >
>     > I have a domain name, demo.solomomenu.com
>     <http://demo.solomomenu.com>, which used to point
>     > public_html directory that is under password protection using basic
>     > authentication in a .htaccess file.
>     >
>     > Today I pointed the domain name to a different public_html directory
>     > that is not under .htaccess authentication.
>     >
>     > But when demo.solomomenu.com <http://demo.solomomenu.com> is
>     accessed, some, not all, but most,
>     > people still get asked for the user name and password from the old
>     > directory.
>
>     Did you change DNS to point to another IP or just the apache
>     config file
>     on the web server?
>
>     If DNS, then this could be just because of DNS caching issues.  Some
>     people are still going to the old IP address.  This will sort
>     itself out
>     over time.
>
>     If you only changed the apache config file, then the only thing I can
>     think of is an aggressive web page caching.  Either on the client or a
>     proxy (transparent or otherwise).
>
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