Re: [cgiwrap-users] CGI and .htaccess precedence

[Nathan N. <nn...@um...>]

Please read docs - cgiwrap will not work with .htaccess files as you have 
described. There is a specific mechanism that has to be followed. If 
that type of support is critical, have a look at suexec.

-- Nathan

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 11:36:40AM +0100, gwilson wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I am using CGI wrap along with rewrite rules to basically force all .php 
> files to be
> executed through cgiwrap - this works very well.
> 
> I havce noticed off behaviour though.  If I create a .htaccess and 
> .htpasswd in a
> directory and have an index.html file in there too - when I browse to 
> it, I get prompted
> for the username and password as you would expect.
> 
> But if I replace the index.html with an index.php - somehow CGI wrap takes
> precedence and the contents of the file is displayed instead of being
> asked for a username and password.
> 
> Can anyone explain why this happens and what needs to be done to get Apache
> to utilise .htaccess BEFORE anything else?
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> GW
> 
> 
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