apache2 authtype Digest - gutsy dist prob

[petersk]

On my home web server, I have an entry to control access to a movie page like this:

#NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin me
DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory "/var/www/movie/">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AuthType Digest
AuthName "peters"
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/svn-admin/digest-password
Require valid-user

</Directory>

I used htdigest to create three users. For some reason though, apache2 doesn't let anyone other than the last user in the digest-password file log in. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I can see three entries in the file (I had to put the space after the ":" to avoid an emoticon in this post only):

kurt@odin:/etc/apache2/svn-admin$ cat digest-password
kurt: peters:6122a237364e0c80ebc5c3
traci: peters:a57ccacfe135d2b64c9e468dc9
pefamily: peters:c1b09d0f0a2b6c6ee1


so, in other words pefamily is the only user allowed to view.
Regards,
Kurt

[MJN]

I've not got personal experience of this but have a look at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_auth_digest.html where it appears to be suggesting you should be using the AuthDigestFile (as opposed to AuthUserFile) and AuthDigestDomain directives.

I would be surprised if correcting this didn't solve your problem - you're probably lucky to have it even partly working! ;)

Mathew

P.S. Note the caveat re browser support.

[petersk]

Thanks for the thought, but “AuthDigestFile” is invalid in Apache 2.2, use “AuthUserFile” according to the things I found. That's why I'm using AuthUserFile.

http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-57430.html

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=157415

http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20070708.213002.dcf795ad.en.html

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/upgrading.html

[MJN]

Ah, okay, sorry - I'm out of ideas. As I say I have no experience of Digest authentication (or 2.2 for that matter) so can only go off the examples.

Good luck!

Mathew