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From: Barry Trout <trout@abclabs.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:02:48 -0600
Subject: Re: PPR: Apache conf additions for web interface?
The Readme.txt does explain /etc/ppr/acl/ppuser.allow
or /etc/ppr/acl/pprprox.allow
Can you shed some light?
David Chappell wrote:
> 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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