[mythtv-users] Mythweb and .htaccess

[Andrew Lyon]

> On 10/28/06, Matthias Meyer <Matthias.Meyer at gmx.li> wrote:
> > Am Samstag 28 Oktober 2006 19:21 schrieb John Drescher:
> > > On 10/28/06, Matthias Meyer <Matthias.Meyer at gmx.li> wrote:
> > > > Am Samstag 28 Oktober 2006 18:47 schrieb John Drescher:
> > > > > I had the same problem two days ago when I finally activated the
> > > > > password. Change Digest to Basic and restart apache was all I needed
> > > > > to do.
> > >
> > > Did you try  Username: MythTV
> > > Password mythtv
> > >
> > > As this is what you setup with this command:
> > > htdigest -c /var/www/htdigest MythTV mythtv
> > >
> > > John
> > Yes, I try it.
> > But man htdigest say:
> >        realm  The realm name to which the user name belongs.
> >
> >        username
> >               The user name to create or update  in  passwdfile.  If
>  username
> >               does  not  exist  is  this  file,  an entry
> is added. If it does
> >               exist, the password is changed.
>
> Do you have htdigest2 ? On gentoo this one worked the way the mythdocs said
> it should work.
>
> Check /var/www/htdigest to see if you have something like:
>
> MythTV:2thLDwg.jd.j1gfds
>
>  where it is username then : then some cryptic string..
>
> > Is it possible to disable this htdigest authentication and access the
> web-page without authorization?
>
> If you just want to disable this just comment out these four keys:
>  # AuthType           Digest
>  #   AuthName           "MythTV"
>  #   AuthUserFile       /var/www/htdigest
>  #   Require            valid-user
>  #   BrowserMatch       "MSIE"
> AuthDigestEnableQueryStringHack=On
>
>
>  I do not recommend this if you are going to make this web page accessible
> to the internet as if a webbot finds your page all your recordings will be
> deleted when the bot follows the links on the page. Search for googlebot in
> this mailing list.
>
>  John
>

I think mayb you want AuthDigestFile, not AuthUserFile, like this:

#    AuthUserFile       /var/www/htdigest
    AuthDigestFile /var/www/htdigest

I am running Apache 2.0.58-r2 on Gentoo.

Andy