Re: ldirectord config for web server behind authentication

forgive me for my poor knowledge of unix systems, can you please explain how
to apply the patch? which file do I add it too, and how do I build the file
etc ?

Thanks a lot.


On 7/6/06, Horms <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 11:36:47 +0100, Imran Aziz wrote:
> > [-- text/plain, encoding 7bit, charset: ISO-8859-1, 48 lines --]
> >
> > Thank you very much for the response.
> >
> > For the time being I have used the apache "Satisfy any" directive to
> sort
> > out this issue, by allowing requests from our IP address to come through
> and
> > show basic authentication to the rest. My Apache config now looks like
> this
> >
> >
> > <Directory "/var/www/html/wwwroot">
> > Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
> > order deny,allow
> > deny from all
> > Allow from xx.xxx.xxx
> >        AuthType Basic
> >        AuthName "Protected Area"
> >        AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/passwd/pass
> >        Require user username
> > Satisfy any
> > </Directory
> >
> > This has sorted out my issue.
> >
> > Imran
> >
> > On 7/5/06, Horms <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 18:06:02 +0100, Imran Aziz wrote:
> >> > [-- text/plain, encoding 7bit, charset: ISO-8859-1, 31 lines --]
> >> >
> >> > Hello All,
> >> >
> >> > I want to know the configuration paramters to specify authentication
> >> details
> >> > for the http site on real server, like what should be the addition
> >> > configuration in ldirectord to enable the director to consider a
> server
> >> > alive behind an authentication?
> >>
> >> That is a good question. Off the top of my head I am not sure
> >> that ldirectord explicitly supports http authentication.
> >>
> >> Patches welcome :)
>
> Could you see if this patch works for you.  It should allow you to
> specify the login and password parameter as part of a virtual service
> (see the example for ftp), and that login and password will be used for
> simple auth for all real servers belonging to the virtual service.
>
> --
> Horms
> H: http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/
> W: http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/
>
>
> Index: ldirectord
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/cvs/linux-ha/linux-ha/ldirectord/ldirectord,v
> retrieving revision 1.140
> diff -u -r1.140 ldirectord
> --- ldirectord  6 Jul 2006 03:53:59 -0000       1.140
> +++ ldirectord  6 Jul 2006 04:45:09 -0000
> @@ -1803,6 +1821,12 @@
>        my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent();
>        $ua->timeout($$v{negotiatetimeout});
>        my $h = new  HTTP::Headers("Host" => $virtualhost);
> +       if (defined $$r{username}) {
> +               $h->authorization_basic($$r{username}, $$r{password})
> +       }
> +       elsif (defined $$v{username}) {
> +               $h->authorization_basic($$v{username}, $$v{password})
> +       }
>        my $req = new HTTP::Request("$$v{httpmethod}", "$$r{url}", $h);
>        my $res;
>        {
>
>