Received: by taz.hyperreal.com (8.8.4/V2.0) id WAA17557; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 22:53:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from vfi.com by taz.hyperreal.com (8.8.4/V2.0) with ESMTP id WAA17546; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 22:53:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kevinh@localhost) by vfi.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA05203 for new-httpd@hyperreal.com; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 22:53:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 22:53:43 -0800 (PST) From: "Kevin 'Kev' Hughes" Message-Id: <199702250653.WAA05203@vfi.com> To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com Subject: Re: Using the PUT method with Apache Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com Alexei Kosut types: > > ...but if I use Script, it seems that the stuff > > I set up is ignored. The server allows any old person to PUT stuff. > > Hmm. This should not be the case. Are you sure the is applied > to the correct directory? ... I double-checked everything, and it turns out that indeed I needed to put a .htaccess file in /cgi-bin, PUT there, make sure .htaccess was readable, and make sure that allowing overrides was OK for /cgi-bin. After that, everything worked! Now I am going to town, yay, long live apache! > > So I say, OK, I'll just check the login name and password > > in the handler itself. But I can't seem to find the environment variable > > that stores the name/password pair to pass to my handler for authentication. > > It isn't. This is a "feature". See below. Ah, now I understand. Those writing books on Apache (I know you're out there :) might want to include these little tips for those making this kind of stuff. Case solved, -- Kevin -- Kevin Hughes * kevinh@vfi.com * www.eit.com/~kevinh Hypermedia Engineer * VeriFone Internet Commerce * Duty now for the future!