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From: David Chappell <David.Chappell@mail.cc.trincoll.edu>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 17:22:01 -0500
Subject: Re: PPR: Apache conf additions for web interface?
Barry Trout wrote:
> Thanks ...but your are right ... I would like the authenication ... but
> the cookie login is not letting me in ....
> I even tried to run localhost:15010 as per README still no admin rights
> Is there a trick to getting the login_cookie to work
>
> my users are in all the allow files /etc/ppr/acl/*
> and in the /etc/ppr/htaccess file
> but still no dice
> I've tried 6.2 on Window and Linux.
>
> can you help?
Make sure the name and permissions of the htpasswd file is correct. It
is not called htaccess.
bash-2.04$ ls -l /etc/ppr/htpasswd
-rw-r--r-- 1 ppr ppr 250 Dec 20 13:00
/etc/ppr/htpasswd
Also make sure that the 2nd field in htpasswd is "printing".
>
> by the way ... does it run faster under apache?
I don't know. Someday I would like to get it working with Modperl.
>
> David Chappell wrote:
>
>> Barry Trout wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone have some docs or an example of
>>> the necessary Apache configuration for the web interface?
>>
>>
>>
>> At the momement, if you want to do anything that requires
>> authentication, you have to use PPR's own web server. If you want to
>> set up Apache so that people can view queues and printer status, I
>> have attached my current configuration below.
>>
>> ScriptAlias /ppr/cgi-bin/ "/usr/lib/ppr/cgi-bin/"
>> Alias /ppr/ "/usr/share/ppr/www/"
>>
>> <Location /ppr/>
>> AllowOverride None
>> Options None
>> Order deny,allow
>> #Deny from all
>> Allow from localhost
>> </Location>
>>
>> <Location /ppr/cgi-bin/>
>> AllowOverride None
>> Options +ExecCGI
>> #AuthType Digest
>> #AuthName "printing"
>> #AuthDigestFile /etc/ppr/htpasswd
>> #AuthDigestDomain /ppr/cgi-bin/
>> #require valid-user
>> Order deny,allow
>> Deny from all
>> Allow from localhost
>> </Location>
>>
>>
>
>
>
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