Re: [Phpwiki-talk] main phpwiki website

[Alexander T. <di...@0-...>]

  >> With that out of the way, I'll explain my trouble with HttpAuth in the
  >> hope that someone can enlighten me.  I'm using PhPWiki 1.3.14, and have
  >> Apache configured to require a password with .htaccess and .htpasswd
  >> files.  I successfully authenticate to Apache, but PhPWiki does not
  >> consider me authenticated, and asks me to login when I try to upload a
  >> file for example.  One unusual thing about this hosting environment, which
  >> is a possible cause, is that /tmp is not writeable, so I have to configure
  >> any temp file locations manually.
  >>
  >> Here are the configuration parameters from the user auth section of my
  >> config/config.ini:
  >>
  >> ALLOW_ANON_USER = true ALLOW_ANON_EDIT = true ALLOW_BOGO_LOGIN = false
  >> ALLOW_USER_PASSWORDS = false
  >>
  >> USER_AUTH_ORDER = "HttpAuth"
  >>
  >> PASSWORD_LENGTH_MINIMUM = 6
  >>
  >> USER_AUTH_POLICY = strict
  >>
  >> ;ENABLE_USER_NEW = false ENABLE_PAGEPERM = false

  Reini> If you choose HttpAuth, phpwiki does not do any auth session handling,
  Reini> all this is done within apache, and therefore you have a apache
  Reini> problem.  phpwiki just checks for the typical vars for PHP_AUTH_USER
  Reini> or REMOTE_USER (in case of cgi)

I just checked and REMOTE_USER has the correct value, while
PHP_AUTH_USER is empty.  I don't have control over the Apache
configuration on this machine, is there something I can do with
the phpwiki configuration to support this case?

Thanks, Alex

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