I have enabled .htaccess (I even manually tested it out by using apache's htpasswd script to add my wikiname to the .htpasswd file in /twiki/data). All seemed to work fine. Then I deleted my htpasswd (I left tWikiGuest and the default other 2 people there) to test the registration script for automatic addition to htpasswd.

I've minimally edited the .htacess.txt file so that the directories etc are working ok. Now when I try to get into the main webhome page I get asked for authentication!! However in the htaccess file, only a few functions should have authentication (the default set). view is not one of them. And now, it is too secure. I can't even get to the WebHome in order to register. Pressing Cancel button on the username dialog gets me to Authorisation Required page (not the registration page).

I also tried logging in as TWikiGuest / guest but it wouldn't recognise the username/password

What am I doing wrong?

thanks, Marie .

• TWiki version: 20001201
• Web server: Apache 1.3.12
• Server OS: Linux 7.0, Kernal 2.4

-- TWikiGuest - 23 Mar 2001

Answer

I've tried to attach a working .htaccess (from the twiki/bin directory) and the additions to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf that worked for me using Apache 1.3.12 on Linux. Hopefully these will work for you, with some changes to fix the paths - however, I don't claim to be an Apache person, so YMMV!

The attachments are not currently working, so have mailed PeterThoeny to see if he can fix this.

-- RichardDonkin - 23 Mar 2001