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Luca Fini (lfini@arcetri.astro.it)
Fri, 14 Nov 1997 09:00:07 +0100 (MET) 

Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 09:00:07 +0100 (MET)
From: Luca Fini <lfini@arcetri.astro.it>
Subject: Re: w3-msql problem!
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.971114085629.6948D-100000@lfini>

On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, [ISO-8859-1] Niclas Käld wrote:

> I'm new to w3-msql and try to use it on my Linux together with Apache.
> (mSQL ver 2.0.3)
> When I try to run http://myserver/cgi-bin/w3-msql/test.html the browser
> brings up the Authentication-window to prompt me for
> username and password. Why? I don't wont to use it. What's the minimum
> configuration to get w3-msql to work? Is there some
> settings in the Apache-configurationfiles missing?

You probably have a file named ".w3-auth" in the directory where is
test.html

All the w3-msql stuff works as a standard CGI. To my understanding you
need special settings (i.e.: a patch) in the Apache httpd only to use
w3-auth.

Cheers,
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