Question

Installing this twiki has run me into various pitfalls which I have gotten past -- until this one.

I wish to require users to authorize. I follow the instructions.

And when I create a new user, I go through the registration procedure and then I check the .htpasswd file:

/home/sites/site93/twiki/data/.htpasswd

and see that a new user with a password has been added there.

BUT no user is able to authenticate, not even TWikiGuest!

here's /home/sites/site93/web/twiki/bin/.htaccess

Redirect /twiki/index.html http://playlistnetwork.com/twiki/bin/view

AuthUserFile /home/sites/site93/twiki/data/.htpasswd
AuthName ByPassword
AuthType Basic

SetHandler cgi-script

ErrorDocument 401 /twiki/bin/oops/TWiki/TWikiRegistration?template=oopsauth

<Files ~ "[^/]*\.html$">
       SetHandler blabla
       allow from all
</Files>

<Files "edit">
       require valid-user
</Files>
etc...

• TWiki version: latest
• Web server: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix)
• Server OS: Linux www.editev.com 2.2.14C10 #3 Wed Jun 21 15:05:10 JST 2000 i586 unknown
• Web browser: "all"
• Client OS: Mac OS 9.1

-- TomRitchford - 02 Dec 2001

Answer

It looks like the location of your .htpasswd file is not set correctly in .htpasswd. Set it to:

AuthUserFile /home/sites/site93/web/twiki/data/.htpasswd

-- PeterThoeny - 05 Dec 2001