Authentication problem

[ianicr]

Hi I've set up the following in httpd.conf:
<Directory /virtual/bogus.com/var/

http://www/installer/>

AllowOverride All
</Directory>

and this in a .htaccess file:

AuthName "System Maintenance"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/conf/user
Require user admin

I've set up the passwd file with
htpasswd -c /etc/httpd/conf/user admin

Changed all the permissions to 644 and it doesn't work. when I try and go to the page I get authorization required but no password request. In the error log I get:

Wed Sep 29 15:23:07 2004] [error] connect to application instance failed, tried 3 times.
[Wed Sep 29 15:23:07 2004] [info] sleeping 3s ..
[Wed Sep 29 15:23:07 2004] [info] retry connect ..
[Wed Sep 29 15:23:07 2004] [info] sleeping 3s ..
[Wed Sep 29 15:23:07 2004] [info] retry connect ..
[Wed Sep 29 15:23:07 2004] [info] sleeping 3s ..
[Wed Sep 29 15:23:07 2004] [info] retry connect ..
[Wed Sep 29 15:23:07 2004] [error] connect to application instance failed, tried 3 times.

Any ideas?
Thanks

 

[Wishdiak]

ianicr,

What does your /etc/httpd/conf/user look like?

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/auth.html

Wishdiak

http://www.wishdiak.com