[prog] Getting Remote_User .htaccess (not working)

[Gareth Anderson]

The setup I have supplied definitely works.

If I change it I get:
"
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was
unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator,
webmaster at yoyo.its.monash.edu.au and inform them of the time the error
occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the
error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Apache/1.3.28 Server at yoyo.its.monash.edu.au Port 80
"
I emphaise the 1.3.x part.

Also there are several mod_ldap modules in apache 1.3.x

THis one   http://nona.net/software/ldap/config/ was installed from
FreeBSD ports I believe.

Regards,
Gareth

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:06:17 +0100, Almut Behrens <almut-behrens at gmx.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 07:35:57PM +1100, Gareth Anderson wrote:
> 
> 
> >
> > This is my .htaccess file (I got this installed on the yoyo server
> > because others didn't work):
> >
> > "
> > order deny,allow
> > deny from all
> > AuthType Basic
> > AuthName "Monash Directory Service (authcate)"
> > AuthLDAPUrl ldap://directory.monash.edu.au/o=Monash University, c=au
> > require valid-user
> > satisfy any
> > "
> >
> > Its called mod_auth_ldap
> > http://nona.net/software/ldap/compile/
> >
> > Anyway, I cannot get the $REMOTE_USER variable in the directory where
> > the .htaccess is, authenticaation takes place and it works fine...
> 
> Are you really sure it is working?  Or, put differently, are you sure
> you're running apache 1.3.x (as you said in the other mail) with the
> mod_auth_ldap module available at the URL you mentioned above?
> If you're really running version 1.3.x, your .htaccess configuration
> cannot work, AFAICT.
> 
> There are two distinct mod_auth_ldap modules, one for the apache 1.3.x
> series, and the other for 2.x.  Despite their identical names, they are
> rather different, each with their own set of incompatible configuration
> directives.  In particular, the mod_auth_ldap-for-1.3.x does not have a
> "AuthLDAPUrl" option[1] -- so I'd expect you to see an "Internal server
> error", if you put that option into your .htaccess file...
> 
> Don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to prove you wrong in any way,
> but unless we know what your precise setup is, we won't know what
> documentation to look at... :)
> 
> For 1.3.x that would be:
> 
>   http://nona.net/software/ldap/config/
> 
> and for 2.x, there's the regular apache documentation:
> 
>   http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_auth_ldap.html
> 
> So, the first step would be to resolve this inconsistency and find out
> which version of apache/mod_auth_ldap actually is running.  With a bit
> of luck, this might well make you solve your $REMOTE_USER issue all by
> yourself...
> 
> Almut
> 
> [1] instead, you'll at least need AuthLDAPHosts, AuthLDAPUserKey and
> AuthLDAPPassKey -- maybe some others as well.
> 
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