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I have followed the Doc section for "Enabling Authentication of Users" To the "T" except for adding "AllowOveride All" to the access.conf file, When I register, I don't get added to the .htpasswd file and when I click on an Edit link, I just get and "Authorization Required" page, but it never pops up a dialog, I have read about an issue with Apache 2.0 and Twiki, is that what I am seeing, or could it be something else? Thanks in advance.

More info, I tried this on a machine with Apache 1.3 and everything works fine, so that leads me to beleive that it is an apache 2.0.40 issue, does anyone know of a fix? or a work around? Would upgrading to Apache 2.0.48 fix this problem.

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-- ChrisMalatesta - 15 Mar 2004

I experience exactly the same symptoms with my installation (matching that above). With Linux 7.1 and Apache 1.3 it is working fine - are there any different settings in the Apache 2.0 configuration? If I can find a solution I'll come back...

-- StephanPulver - 16 Mar 2004

see BasicAuthenicationOnLinux. "AllowOveride All" has to be set in the apache config file to make use of the ".htaccess" file in the folders. If do not set "AllowOveride All" the same settings as in ".htaccess" have to be entered in the apache config file (recommended way if you have access to these config files access.conf and httpd.conf . See : http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/htaccess.html) .

-- MarcelTrap - 10 Apr 2004

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