[Pmwiki-users] upload config problem

Bob Dively dive
Wed May 5 07:57:33 CDT 2004


Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 09:38:51AM -0400, Bob Dively wrote:
>> I'm sure that this is going to turn to be some stupid mistake on my
>> part so I apologize in advance for requiring hand-holding.
>>
>> I'm trying to enable uploads on a pmwiki 0.6.17 install that's on a
>> website secured with apache basic http authentication.
>> [...]
>>  The only major difference between the two installs is that the
>> working one only have one line in .htpasswd and the non-working one has
>> four lines (none of which is "uploads").
>
> PmWiki's HTTP authentication won't work if Apache's HTTP authentication
> is enabled -- at least, it won't work if the passwords are different
> between the two.  You probably want to use the sessionauth.php script
> for the PmWiki authentication -- just add
>
>    include_once('scripts/sessionauth.php');
>
> to your config.php.

Thanks. I'll give that a shot. I'm still confused as to why I have one
install that works fine with Apache's authentication and one that doesn't,
but ultimately I suppose that it doesn't really matter to me.

cheers,
-b




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