Re: htdig and htaccess

Jim wrote:
> On Thu, 19 May 2005, Jan Eri wrote:
> 
>> $BINDIR/htdig -i -u my_username:my_password $opts $stats $alt
>>
>> but then rundig stops immediately again. The username/password 
>> spelling is checked many times, what else can be wrong?
> 
> Have you tried increasing the verbosity of the output generated by htdig
> to see if that tells you anything useful? If not, I would try something
> like rundig -vvv (the more v's you add, the more verbose the output).

Douglas Davis has given me some more pointers. And I think he must be 
right that the problem is related to the part of our site that is 
located in a PHP/MySQL based CMS.

As long as I do not provide provide the username/password, htdig works 
well also on this part of our site (except the few pages/directories 
that really need authorization of course).

As soon as I provide the correct username/password (only 
letters/numbers) in rundig or htdig.conf htdig stops working on this 
part of our site - including the part that does not require 
authorization. To verify that htdig & authorization itsef actually 
works, I created a static HTML file that links to password protected PDF 
files and used that static page as start_url. The PDF-file was indexed 
normally. But not if start_url is the CMS page that normally contains 
the links to the PDF files.

I am not able to interpret the output from -vvv, but I can provide it if 
anyone cares to have a look at it.

Thanks,
Jan


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