#58 plain password authentication with Apache

[Anonymous]

Originally created by: agrin...@gmail.com
Originally owned by: cmpilato

Hi, I've been reading about the setting up the password-base authentication
with Apache as a server (as described on this page: http://svnbook.red-
bean.com/en/1.5/svn.serverconfig.httpd.html), and I spent half a night trying
to make it work..
The problem was that for some reason Apache was not finding the user file, and
printing errors in the log like:
... configuration error:  couldn't check user.  No user file?: ...

finally I've found the solution. The problem was with the configuration API
changes of Apache/2.2.11 (Unix). To make it work I had to have the following
in the httpd.conf file:

<Location /svn>
    DAV svn
    SVNPath /home/svn

    AuthName "Subversion repository"
#NOTICE THIS LINE
    AuthType Basic
    AuthBasicProvider file
    AuthUserFile /home/svn/conf/apache-auth-file

    <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
        Require valid-user
    </LimitExcept>
</Location>
#AND LOADING OF THE 3 MODULES
LoadModule   auth_basic_module        modules/mod_auth_basic.so
LoadModule   authn_file_module        modules/mod_authn_file.so
LoadModule   authz_user_module        modules/mod_authz_user.so
LoadModule   authz_host_module        modules/mod_authz_host.so
LoadModule   dir_module               modules/mod_dir.so
LoadModule   dav_module               modules/mod_dav.so

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: agrin...@gmail.com

sorry, the
  #NOTICE THIS LINE
should be one line below - it relates to
  AuthBasicProvider file
directive

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: cmpilato

"AuthBasicProvider file" is the default for Apache.  But if a different value (outside the scope of your httpd.conf snippet) was used for the AuthBasicProvider, then the Subversion <Location> would have inherited it.  So I can see how that might be confusing and hard to diagnose.

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[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: cmpilato

Sending        book/ch06-server-configuration.xml
Transmitting file data .
Committed [r4335].

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