Topic: HTTP/1.1" 401 401

[sfreeman]

hey there guys, I just setup my new apache server today (it's simple, just to view some html books I have from my phone, instead of having to keep them actually on the phone). unfortunately, i'm having a problem now...I wanted to secure it using a username/password, and I thought I followed the directions correctly (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/auth.html), but I'm getting the above error in my access log when I try to log in when I'm using Digest mode instead of Basic. Here's the htpasswd line I entered:
htpasswd -c "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\Password" steve
then I got the two prompts to enter my password, which I did. then in httpd.conf, I have the following:
<Directory "C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/htdocs/Books">
AuthType Digest
AuthName "Books"
# (Following line optional)
AuthBasicProvider file
AuthUserFile "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\Password\passwords"
Require user steve
</Directory>
Now, like I said, "AuthName Basic" works, but I would prefer to use Digest. Any ideas? I've tried it in multiple browsers, and it behaves the same in all three (Firefox 3.x, Chrome, and the evil IE).

[glsmith]

Well .. you are mixing the two of them in your config.

AuthBasicProvider is for AuthType Basic
AuthDigestProvider is for AuthType Digest

htpassword.exe is for creating Basic type password files.
htdigest.exe is for creating Digest type password files.


see:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_auth_digest.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/htdigest.html

[sfreeman]

Ok, I got it all working, thx for the help. Another issue (which took me at least 30 minutes to figure out), is that:
LoadModule auth_digest_module modules/mod_auth_digest.so
was commented out by default. after I removed the #, everything's working.

[glsmith]

yep .. most modules are "turned off" by default. Only the basic necessities are on by default.