Question

Disabling authentication in TWiki when main site uses .htaccess authentication

On a site with authentication enabled for the main (root) level, when it is desired to allow normal default non-authentication on TWiki, it requires some tinkering to get TWiki to ignore this authentication.

Test case

1. install twiki on site with .htaccess authentication at root level
2. configure apache as per docs
3. configure twiki, default to not use authentication
4. view works OK, but edit does not

Environment

-- JonathanCline - 24 Jul 2002

Answer

This is somewhere between not-a-bug, configuration problem, or TWiki limitation. Feels like TWiki may have a hard time ignoring the user passed to it, even if it is desired that TWiki ignore this user authentication. More later. --JC

-- JonathanCline - 24 Jul 2002

This sounds more like a support question. Does TWiki's .htaccess file still list edit as a script that requires a valid user?

-- PeterThoeny - 24 Jul 2002