Problems with authentication in Apache 2 on RH8

From: Scott Navarre (scott_navarre_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/12/04 

Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 21:01:43 -0700

Hi,

  I am trying to get authentication working for cgi-bin, on the default
Apache that came with RedHat 8.0 (Apache 2.0.40).
  I have the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf with the following:
<Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
    #AllowOverride None
    #Options None
    #Order allow,deny
    #Allow from all
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Test"
    AuthUserFile /var/www/passwd/passwords
    Require valid-user
</Directory>

  I also created a /var/www/passwd directory and ran:
    htpasswd -c /var/www/passwd/passwords test
to create a user 'test'.

  Finally, I went into Services and restarted httpd.

  Then I tried to run a script in http://localhost/cgi-bin/, which gives the
username/password window.
  The problem is that it doesn't seem to be accepting my username/password!
It keeps giving me the username/password window again.
  Am I missing something???

Thanks in advance,
  Scott Navarre

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