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Subject: Re: [users@httpd] What can cause Apache to 'ignore' AuthBasic in
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At 17:24 -0400 22.08.2004, Joshua Slive wrote:
>On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 17:21:14 -0400, Angus McIntyre <angus@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>>                  DocumentRoot /home/example/www/
>>                  <Directory "/usr/home/example/www/logs">
>
>What's that "/usr" doing on the front.  Either a typo or a symlink.
>Either way, it is wrong, since apache doesn't reset the path when
>following symlinks.

Thank you for your quick response. That was of course the problem. 
Fixed that, wrestled briefly with permissions, and now everything 
works.

Thank you.

Angus

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