Re: [viewvc-users] Apache basic authentication not working

Alan Dayley wrote:
> See the response in this other thread for what I have tried to do:
> http://viewvc.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4255&dsMessageId=975661
> 
> 
> This is exactly (except for the paths, of course) what I have now
> configured as an attempt to require authentication for our ViewVC
> service. It does not work. ViewVC displays the pages as before, wide
> open.
> 
> - I have restarted Apache between configuration file changes. - I put a
> bogus directive in the <Location> block a proved with a start error from
> Apache that the configuration file is being read. - Proceeding to the
> Subversion browser URL pops the user ID and password box but going to
> ViewVC does not.
> 
> I'm baffled that it will not work. The Apache logs simply report that I
> successfully retrieved the page from ViewVC.  What more can I do to debug
> this issue?

Any chance you're able to see the page because your browser has cached the
auth privilege information and is providing it on your behalf without
prompting?  Do the Apache logs you referenced show that you anonymously
accessed the ViewVC pages (typically depicted by showing a username of "-")?

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