news.caltech.edu wrote:
> I'm trying to use basic authentication, but for some reason its not working.
> It never prompts me for a password. The same server is running another site
> which is using basic authentication and thats working. I'm not sure whats
> different about this other site that its not working. I have restarted
> apache after making the changes to the conf file. Here's the relevant
> section (the actual conf file has the correct server name and ip):
>
> <VirtualHost 0.0.0.0:80>
> ServerName my.server.name
> DocumentRoot /disk/whis-site
> CustomLog logs/access_log_whis combined
> <Directory /disk/whis-disk/phppgadmin>
> Options +ExecCGI Indexes
> AuthType Basic
> AuthName "Whis"
> AuthUserFile /disk/whis_sitePassFile
> Require valid-user
> </Directory>
> </VirtualHost>
>
>

anyone have any suggestions for this? i'm really stumped as to why the
above config doesnt work.